Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Warburton

Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.

Zachary Quinto

My passion is acting, and has always been. It's what brought me to this point of being able to diversify and do other things, and I hope it's something I'll continue to have a passion for.

Zachary Levi

Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.

Zakk Wylde

You have to have passion for what you're doing.

Zakk Wylde

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.

Zane Grey

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.

Zig Ziglar

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.

Twyla Tharp

Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.

Twyla Tharp

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft,

Twyla Tharp

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

William Godwin

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

William Godwin

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Wilfrid Laurier

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

Walter Lippmann

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

Voltaire

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Voltaire

Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

William Lloyd Garrison

And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'

William Booth

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.

William Butler Yeats

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

William Butler Yeats

. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

William Butler Yeats

A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought....

William Butler Yeats

... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?

Walter Sickert

Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

Walter Isaacson

...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

Walter Isaacson

If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.

William Katt

Be ready, be prepared, be alert and then everybody around you will notice and they will want to share their skills with you even more. You're showing that you're enthusiastic, you care and that you're dedicated. It's not always easy, but if you've got a passion and a desire to do something then your natural energy will get you through.

Yo-Yo Ma

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

Yo-Yo Ma

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

Winston Churchill

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

Rhonda Byrne

When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely, without any doubt.

Rick Warren

Passion drives perfection.

Trisha Yearwood

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.