Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de La Fontaine

The strongest passion is fear.

Graham Greene

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

Graham Greene

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

Harriet Lerner

If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.

Ian Somerhalder

Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.

Ian Somerhalder

The world is so tremendously spectacular that every visual, sense, and sparked connection swells my unrestrained passion for life. I find I feel this the most when I am immersed in nature and sliding into the bloodstream of the wilderness.

Ian Somerhalder

So many people are working in industries that don't inspire them, to pay the bills and survive. In an ideal world, everyone would get paid to work within their passion and expand in their talents. If you have a skill, a passion, and a love for creating change, the best way to support us is to co-create with us.

Hugh Prather

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

Horace

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Guy Forget

Anything is possible as long as you have the passion.

Guy de Maupassant

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

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.

Jacques Barzun

Life is given us as a passion.

Jacques Barzun

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

Jackie Collins

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

Jack White

We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff then keep on plodding forward. I'll never be Mark Twain or Tom Clancy. But that's okay, because neither of them could teach you to mix a boundless number of grays, or where to place the catch light in a portrait.

Jack White

Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an artist will wither and blow away.

Jeanne Calment

I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

Giacomo Casanova

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

Jessica Sanchez

I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

Jessica Tandy

Each of us must do whatever we have a passion to do.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another authority, a censor.

Jeremy Piven

You know the Greeks didnt write obituaries, they only asked one question after a man died, ‘Did he have passion?’

Jim Butcher

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.