Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

Carrie Brownstein

What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.

Carrie Fisher

I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

Carl Sagan

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species.

Bethany Hamilton

Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it’s my passion, my love and it’s a part of me,

Bethany Hamilton

Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.

Bethany Hamilton

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions,

Bernard Berenson

Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

Ashton Kutcher

I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.

Antoine Rivarol

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Antoine Rivarol

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Antoine Rivarol

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

Bill Vaughan

He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.

Bertrand Russell

There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion.

Sidney Crosby

I was trying to be him when I was 10 years old. So now, with passing him, it's pretty special.

Vince Young

Whether I have to run it 100 times or pass it 100 times, that's what I'll do.

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.