Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

Bertrand Russell

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

Bertrand Russell

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

Bertrand Russell

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

Bertrand Russell

It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.

That will probably be more important for its passing than for its result.

That was really, to me, the passing of the torch, ... This was the second part of it.

I was older. So I didn't pass him the ball.

Kofi Annan

Let me say that the U.N. resolution, the recent one which was passed on Syria, does not threaten sanctions,

I wish we had passed the school bonds.

Sidney Crosby

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

I was under the pass on the first one and got beat, ... I said to myself if it was going to come to me again, I vowed not to get beat.

Pat Gillick

I still have the drive, the competitiveness, the passion.

I think she would just as soon pass and have someone else score than score herself. That's just her attitude.

We can't be tentative or passive. We have to play with passion.

I think he was, 'I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this' and he hyperventilated and passed out.

Felipe Alou

I think he wanted to pass the Babe.

Ted Thompson

I think he can still play, and I think he still has the passion to play.

Sidney Crosby

I thought of passing it for a second.

I think they're making themselves look stupid with every passing day. We will not be sidelined in this process.

Vince Young

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

Jean de la Bruyere

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

Jean de la Bruyere

Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

Jean de la Bruyere

A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.

Jay Haas

I think Curtis is finally getting his drive back, his passion for the game, ... I think he's starting to enjoy that competition again. That's what drives us all out here that feeling of being able to hit a good shot in a tough situation.

Candice Accola

As far as the quote-unquote shipping community goes, I love the passion behind anyone who ships Caroline and Klaus. They are very hardcore shippers...

Candace Bushnell

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

James Hilton

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

Janel Parrish

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

Jane Pauley

Sometimes it takes the better part of a lifetime to find out what your passion is, but in my observation, if you do, it might be the best part of your life.

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.