Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Jackson

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

Chris Hedges

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

Chris Hardwick

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.

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.

Jeff Buckley

I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Gemma Arterton

You can't connect with something you're not passionate about.

Erich Fromm

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

Eoin Colfer

You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a moment passionne with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with his typical boorish behavior. Let me just throw something out there for you to consider while we're chasing the probe: I share Artemis's passion but not his boorishness. No pressure; just think about it. This was enough to elicit a deafening moment of silence even in the middle of a crisis, which Orion seemed to be blissfully unaffected by.

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.

Ginni Rometty

IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.

Gwen Stefani

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

He's one of the most passionate performers I've ever seen or heard. It's just thrilling to be on the stage with him.

J. J. Abrams

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

J. D. Salinger

But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative. They tend to express themselves more clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the end.

Ivanka Trump

It's very hard to be great at what you do if you aren't deeply passionate,

Isabelle Adjani

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

Isabelle Adjani

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

J. D. Pardo

Music is a passion of mine. Im always listening, always learning.

Obviously, we feel pretty passionate about this issue.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

My siblings and I were raised to be very hardworking and to find something that we're passionate in, and to be able to turn that into work - I'm lucky to be able to say that I've done that.

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

Carl Sagan

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.

Bertrand Russell

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

James E. Faust

Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.

Jane Porter

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Ethan Hawke

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

Ethan Hawke

I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.