Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert Burnet

Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations we are eternally happy.

Identity. Do you need a passport to know who you are?

Tom Bradley

I am prepared to pass the torch to new leadership,

Aaron Huey

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

Tom Jones

How many opportunities have to be passed up?

Hunter S. Thompson

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human' infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.

Traditionally, in previous evacuations, Sabine Pass residents have been reluctant to leave,

Paul Hewitt

You look at the stat sheet and see we had 27 turnovers, I don't think there's anything else I can point to. They're long and they really got out in the passing lanes, and we didn't react to it very well.

My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

Craig Patrick

We didn't sense that there was any problems with the shoulder. He passed the physical.

We don't have any way to pass it on.

Xavi

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

Tom Armstrong

We worked a lot on our high-low passes and our post players sealing. That worked well for us.

Adrienne Rich

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

Adrienne Rich

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

Agatha Christie

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

Ada Leverson

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

Ada Louise Huxtable

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

Abraham Flexner

Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

Cary Fukunaga

'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.

Ludwig von Mises

He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions disarrange valuations. Inflamed with passion, man sees the goal as more desirable and the price he has to pay for it as less burdensome than he would in cool deliberation.

Robert Kiyosaki

Passion is the beginning of success

William Shakespeare

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

Baz Luhrmann

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

With other communities around us passing similar ordinances, it seemed like the wise thing to do.

We pass on a lot of them because they are too expensive.

We passed very well throughout and we communicated well.

We passed on our protest, saying no shooting should have been done.

David Gemmell

None of us can choose the manner of our passing.

David Gemmell

This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.