Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.

William Shakespeare

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

Billy Ray Cyrus

I'm standing at a crossroads. I'm not entirely sure what the future holds ... I'm at a crossroads, but it's a little bit different than the crossroads I've been at before because I'm doing what I do because I love it, and doing what I do because it's pure passion.

Ed Westwick

You have to do things that excite you; you have to have a passion for your work. Otherwise you're just a face on the screen.

Elizabeth Kostova

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

Betty White

I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.

Betty White

I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

After you've been wandering in the wilderness and you've done your work, something will rise to the surface that it is so clear, that your skills, passion and preference are tailored for the job.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Bertrand Russell

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Benjamin Disraeli

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Benjamin Disraeli

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Carl T. Rowan

The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

Jane Addams

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Janet Guthrie

Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.

Janet Guthrie

Racing is a calling, a passion.

Bar Refaeli

Have the passion and the magic will happen

Baltasar Gracian

Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues.

Diane Ackerman

Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Coco Chanel

Passion always goes, and boredom stays.

Coco Chanel

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Coco Chanel

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Clarice Lispector

Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion.

Brian Chesky

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.