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.

Walker Percy

Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

William Butler Yeats

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude...

Robert Green Ingersoll

We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Wendell Berry

We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

Wendell Berry

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Yoko Ono

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

Deborah Williams

I really didn't think we were going to get out of there alive. It really was a miracle from God.

Richard Risbrudt

I prayed for a miracle tonight and I got it.

Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius

Eugene Delacroix

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Richelle Mead

It's not my fault so much as my genius,

Zinedine Zidane

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is

Henry Adams

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

John Green

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

Julian Barnes

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

Mary MacLane

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.