Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.

Wallace Stevens

Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.

Vittorio Alfieri

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

Virgil

Passion and strife bow down the mind

Warren Buffett

Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.

Warren Buffett

Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.

Vincent Van Gogh

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

Vincent Van Gogh

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

Will Hermes

Whats the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.

Wayne Dyer

Let the world know why you're here, and do it with passion.

Walter Chrysler

Collecting has always been in my blood.

Virginia Woolf

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

Virginia Woolf

Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

Virginia Woolf

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Virginia Woolf

The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

Virginia Woolf

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

William Blake

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

William Blake

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

William Blake

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

William Blake

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.

William Blake

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

Werner Herzog

It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.

Wale

Some interviewers aren't even interested. They're just doing it because they gotta do it. Life is nothing without passion. Whatever you're doing, at least be passionate about it because I'm passionate about what I'm doing. I'm passionate about the words I'm saying right now. Just be passionate. When the interviews is passionate, it's more conversational and we're not covering the same ground.

Samuel Richardson

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

Samuel Richardson

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

Salma Hayek

I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

Ryan Sheckler

My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.

Ryan Phillippe

I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.

Ryan Reynolds

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.

Wanda Sykes

If you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

Wangari Maathai

Passion begins with a burden and a split-second moment, when you understand something like never before. That burden is on those who know. Those who don't know are at peace. Those of us who do know get disturbed and are forced to take action.

William Congreve

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.