Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

Her passion was never spent in public display.

Rick Clausen

I think it's the ultimate rivalry in the SEC. There's always a little more passion when it comes to this game.

Richard Whately

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Rhonda Britten

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

Virginia Woolf

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

Virat Kohli

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Woodrow Wilson

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

Woody Allen

Jazz is a big thing with me. It's a very big passion of mine, to play it. I'm an amateur musician and I love everything about it. I was obsessed with jazz when I was 15 years old and I know a lot about it because I've loved it so much.

William Wordsworth

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

Nicholas Sparks

There's no love like the first.

Sean Lennon

Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.

Rainbow Rowell

These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will follow.

Adele Exarchopoulos

I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.

Sophie Kinsella

I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.

Melissa Rosenberg

TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It's where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that.

C. S. Lewis

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

Jane Anderson

Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

Rose Macaulay

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

Salman Rushdie

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

William Faulkner

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

John Donne

Lust-bred diseases rot thee.

Louis de Bernieres

Love delayed is lust augmented.

Hermann Hesse

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

Alice Munro

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

Susan Sontag

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

Stephenie Meyer

I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.