Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Bezos

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Jeff Bezos

You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you

Jeff Bezos

You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is a useless passion.

Georges Cuvier

To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.

George Will

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

George Sand

The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine

George Sand

We must have a passion in life.

Jean Racine

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

Jean Racine

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!

Friedrich Nietzsche

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

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 Berkeley

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

George Bernard Shaw

There is only one universal passion fear.

Gemma Arterton

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

Gemma Arterton

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

Galen Rowell

My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.

Freeman Dyson

For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours, thinking how wonderful it was that each of those metal foils and jars of gas had its own distinct personality.

Fred Brooks

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

Erich Fromm

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

Erich Fromm

Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.

Erica Jong

The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

Erica Jong

In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

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.

Elvis Costello

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

Jasper Johns

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

Jason Patric

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

Guy Kawasaki

Facebook is for people, Twitter is for perspective, Google+ is for passion, LinkedIn is for pimping