Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dudley Warner

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

Charlize Theron

Modeling was never a passion of mine.

Charlaine Harris

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

Charlie Munger

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

Charles Handy

Passion is born of vague hopes.

William Shakespeare

Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.

William Shakespeare

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

Cesare Lombroso

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Billy Ray Cyrus

I'm standing at a crossroads. I'm not entirely sure what the future holds ... I'm at a crossroads, but it's a little bit different than the crossroads I've been at before because I'm doing what I do because I love it, and doing what I do because it's pure passion.

Ed Westwick

You have to do things that excite you; you have to have a passion for your work. Otherwise you're just a face on the screen.

Elizabeth Kostova

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

We'll see if we can pass them on to your heirs then.

Betty White

I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.

Betty White

I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

After you've been wandering in the wilderness and you've done your work, something will rise to the surface that it is so clear, that your skills, passion and preference are tailored for the job.

The stakes keep going up in terms of the need to pass levy issues.

John Lurie

The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

George Osborne

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Bertrand Russell

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Benjamin Disraeli

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Benjamin Disraeli

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Carl T. Rowan

The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

Jane Addams

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.