Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Angie Martinez

The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.

John Ruskin

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

John Ruskin

All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.

John Ruskin

Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

John Ruskin

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Masiela Lusha

If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

Mason Cooley

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Mason Cooley

Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.

Mary Astell

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

Michael Gartner

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

Certainly, no one was thinking they were going to pass the most significant legislation of the past 50 years.

Marsha Blackburn

One of the most important tasks of the United States House of Representatives is to pass a budget resolution.

If they can pass the drug screen, they'll get work.

Some are going to be very upset if they don't pass this test.

George Eliot

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

Vince Young

Whether I have to run it 100 times or pass it 100 times, that's what I'll do.

Jim Butcher

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

Joshua Johnson

He said he had one big pass left.

Richard Whately

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

Wayne Gretzky

I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.

Robert Stone

The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.

Walt Whitman

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

Saul Alinsky

Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own experience to a new way. A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate.

John C. Maxwell

I think that self-discipline has to be accompanied by passion.

James Harrington

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

Kyrie Irving

No alaram clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. !

Jon Bon Jovi

Nothing is as important as passion.

You can only pass the person making the turn.

W. S. Gilbert

All you had to do was get a pass close, and he could pull it in.

Paul Taylor

This is our first pass at seeing if it would all fit.