Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bret Michaels

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

Bret Easton Ellis

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

Boris Pasternak

They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.

Blake Mycoskie

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

Blaise Pascal

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Our passion is our strength.

Dennis Prager

The more passions you have the happier you'll be

Democritus

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

Anzia Yezierska

This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!

Edmund Spenser

Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

Edgar Allan Poe

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

Edward Abbey

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Edward Abbey

John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.

Edward Abbey

A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body.

Aristotle

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

Aristotle

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Elizabeth Bowen

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

Elizabeth Bowen

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Dominic Monaghan

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

Dave Ramsey

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

Chris Chelios

We wanted to play with passion and excitement, and we did that. We could have very well have won the game. We played well enough to win.

Anna Jameson

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.

Thomas Fuller

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

Mark Shapiro

We saw the same things from him that we've seen in the past. A tremendous athlete, strong hands, a passion for the game. There was nothing different.

Robert Kiyosaki

Passion pushes you to learn more, create more and to create better. Best of all, it's contagious.

Robert Kiyosaki

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

There's no urgency, there's no passion. It's the old way of doing things.

Dorothea Lange

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

Doris Lessing

Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

Don Watson

Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.