Famous Quotes & Sayings

James E. Faust

Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.

Jane Porter

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Ethan Hawke

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

Ethan Hawke

I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.

Chris Marker

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

Chris Gardner

Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.

Jean Paul Gaultier

All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The passions are the voice of the body.

Jessica Lange

I have always followed the most passionate course.

Jennifer Chiaverini

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

Jeff Goldblum

There is a fine line between passion and gas.

Graham Greene

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

Ian Somerhalder

Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.

Guy de Maupassant

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

James Bovard

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

Jeanne Calment

I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

Giacomo Casanova

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another authority, a censor.

Jeremy Piven

You know the Greeks didnt write obituaries, they only asked one question after a man died, ‘Did he have passion?’

Jim Butcher

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

Gloria Steinem

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

Gloria Steinem

There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

J. M. Coetzee

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.

H. G. Wells

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world