Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Hardwick

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.

Christine Lahti

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

Christina Rossetti

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

Christine Feehan

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Isaac Watts

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

Isaac Watts

It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.

Isabel Allende

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

Irving Howe

One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

Friedrich Nietzsche

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

Frans Lanting

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

Franz Boas

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

Jeanette Winterson

Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals

Jeanette Winterson

Passion is not well bred.

Jim Capaldi

I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

Jessie Ware

If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.

Jerome Bruner

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

Jeremy Taylor

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

Jeremy Taylor

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

Jennifer Stone

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

Jemima Kirke

I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

Jello Biafra

All my different kinds of artwork have been designed to inspire people to think. They may not always agree with me, but at least they will have some feelings and some passion about whatever it is.

Jerry Jones

There are a lot of people with money, but not with the passion to really go spend it.

Jennifer James

There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.