Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Boas

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

Jean-Paul Sartre

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

George Bernard Shaw

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.

Carrie Fisher

I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

Bertrand Russell

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

Jeff Goldblum

There is a fine line between passion and gas.

James Bovard

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

Jim Butcher

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

Richard Whately

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

William Shatner

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

Richard Selzer

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Warren Buffett

Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

Wayne Gretzky

I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.

Robert Stone

The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.

Walt Whitman

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

Saul Alinsky

Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own experience to a new way. A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate.

Rohit Shetty

Working out is a healthy habit: it helps you stay light and energetic. At least, that is how it works for me, and over the years it has been one of my greatest passions.

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....

Walter Sickert

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

Walter Isaacson

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

Steve Vai

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

William Hazlitt

Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch.

William Hazlitt

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

William Hazlitt

Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

William Hazlitt

An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.

William E. Gladstone

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

Walter Pater

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.

Walter Pater

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Walter Raleigh

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.