Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Meredith

In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

George Mikes

In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is quite mad with passion, he may add: "I rather fancy you, in fact.

G. H. Hardy

I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Reason is the slave of passion.

Chris LeDoux

I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.

George Takei

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.

Gene Robinson

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Gene Tierney

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Garth Brooks

Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings.

Garth Brooks

The cool thing about passion is that no matter how good or bad a day you're having, tomorrow's going to be better because passion finds some way of doubling itself.

Gail Sheehy

The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

Gail Sheehy

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

Frank Gehry

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

George Etherege

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

George Eliot

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

George Eliot

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

Fisher Ames

The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them by their demagogues... and the violent men, who are the most forward to gratify those passions, will be their favorites. What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of such men. Here, then, we have the faithful portrait of democracy.

Henry Moore

Being an artist is celebrating life.

Henry Miller

As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.

Henry Miller

Develop an Interest in Life as you see it.

Henri Frederic Amiel

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks

Henri Frederic Amiel

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Cat Osterman

I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days.

Cassandra Clare

I am brave," Will said... "Yes, you are," Magnus said, and kissed him. It wasn't the most dramatic kiss, but Will failed his free arm as if a bee had landed on him; Magnus had to hope Camille would assume this was passion. When they broke apart, Will looked stunned. So did Camille, for that matter. ... Will swung sideways...He dashed across the room, retrieved it, and tucked it into Magnus's waistcoat pocket. Then, with a wink at Camille that, Magnus thought, God alone knew how she would interpret, he sauntered out of the room.

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.

George Eliot

Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own... You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.

George Eliot

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

George Eliot

All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

Gabriel Iglesias

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

Francoise Sagan

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.