A Quote by Livy

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

Livy

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Conflict Generally Great Passions

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Livy
Roman - Historian
59 BC - 17

Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

Charles Inglis

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

Charles Caleb Colton

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

Denis Diderot

Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.

Edmund Burke

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.

Steven Pressfield

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

Mason Cooley

I think all the roles I've played really center around either the great conflict or how the great conflict affects the people that I love. I've been cast often as a hard-nosed, hyper-confident guy.

Andre Braugher

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

Rose Macaulay

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.