Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Ripert

When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.

Eric S. Raymond

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

Steve was a tough businessman who also had a passionate side. He always wanted to give back to the community, but he didn't want the recognition. He wouldn't like this at all.

Clint Dempsey

Once people settled down, we were able to string more passes together. In the second half, they just got tired and we were able to go after them.

Maurice Greene

It's real simple to pass a stick, you just have to get people in there who know what they're doing and everything else,

It's really tough to pass here. I was lucky.

It kind of scared me. I'm not usually prepared for a car to pass me that fast.

It's different. You have to be a running back, a receiver and a pass protector.

Hayley Wickenheiser

It was painful. So I just tried to pass more than shoot.

Rick Steves

It's wasteful to have a train pass just ticking away.

Andy Griffith

It's time for me to pass this on to you folks,

It will pass in Texas by a vote of 2-to-1,

The world is our stage. They play here with the same passion, the same perfection as they play in Russia.

The voters have proven to be pretty thoughtful. Some initiatives pass narrowly and some are crushed.

They were respecting the pass a little too much, and if I see a lane, I'm going to take off,

They'll play with a passion and work when it's time. But they know how to treat people. And that's important.

John Sullivan

It was his passion. He truly wanted to make it a better place.

Alan Cohen

The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

When we're focused, we can go on runs like that. In the second half, we started making more unselfish passes and made things happen.

Nolan Bushnell

Sometimes when you hire people who have to pass a Mr. Congeniality test, you end up losing some of the non-conformists who will give you different views and perspectives.

Pierre Omidyar

I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.

Nia Long

I will say that I appreciate Hillary Clinton's awareness and passion for women. I think she is overqualified in the sense that she's been in the White House, so she knows the drill. I am hopeful that she will continue to support minorities and create better opportunities.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.

Noah Webster

Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.

Jodi Picoult

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

Carolyn Kizer

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

Evangeline Lilly

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

Evangeline Lilly

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us.

Moby

There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people's minds, you have to respect the people you're talking to.