Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Wambaugh

I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

Joseph Story

Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.

Joseph Story

The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day.

Joseph Campbell

The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.

Joseph Campbell

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

Julio Iglesias

Passion has been in my DNA for generations.

Juliette Binoche

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

Juliette Binoche

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.

Julianne Hough

I knew if I stayed in London my whole life would be dancing. I'd won almost every major title you can. I thought 'This really isn't my passion. I really want to sing,' and I knew I wouldn't be able to if I stayed there.

Juan Manuel Fangio

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

Joshua Lederberg

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

Joshua Reynolds

Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended to rouse the nobler passions...

Josh Billings

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

Karl Kraus

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

Karl Kraus

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

Kandyse McClure

Celebrate yourself. Follow your passions and eccentricities, because they are yours alone. You are unique! If everyone did that, I'm pretty sure there would be world peace.

Julian Fellowes

Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

Maria Shriver

The most important thing we can tell young people is not to be an imitation of somebody else. That their life is special. They are the creator of their life and their way and find something that they enjoy doing that doesn't even feel like work. It feels like a passion. And then just by doing that and bringing that to the world, they become architects of change.

Paul Theroux

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

Paul Keating

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

Patrick Stewart

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

Patrick Dixon

Connect with all the passions people have -for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing.

Patrick Dixon

Volunteering is a window into the passions of the soul.

Patrick Dempsey

If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

Ovid

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

Patton Oswalt

You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation.

I want guys who want to be here. I want guys who are energetic and passionate. I didn't see any passion from Todd. You could tell form his body language that he didn't want to be here.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... as belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief; ...

Pauley Perrette

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

Paul Valery

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

Joyce Meyer

The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.