Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marsilio Ficino

The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking.

Martha Graham

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

Martha Beck

Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward...

Martha Beck

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.

by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.

Patrick Leahy

Judiciary is where my passion is.

Pat Cash

All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed

Pat Conroy

She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it.

Julia Quinn

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

Judah Friedlander

I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.

Joseph Joubert

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

Joseph Joubert

The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

Joseph Joubert

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

Kristin Hannah

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

Myles Munroe

Purpose gives birth to hope and instills the passion to act.

Moliere

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Moliere

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved

Moliere

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Moliere

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Nat Wolff

I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.

Nancy Lublin

Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.

Ken Auletta

Passion without focus can lead you astray.

Ken Auletta

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

Keegan-Michael Key

I think the reason I went into theater, ultimately, was because that was one of multicultural groups. Because you identify with other people that share similar passions to you, so it didn't matter how much melanin was in their skin.

Keith Carradine

[Mel Gibson] had just directed The Passion [Of The Christ], and it had just been released as we started production on Complete Savages. But I have to say, nobody ever talked about it, and he never brought any of that to work. He was just delightful, and I had a great time.

Kathryn Minshew

The best cover letters I've read are from people who have a passion for my company, and can make that passion come to life on a page. The letters that make me say, 'Yes! This person really gets it.' Because, at the end of the day, I want to hire people who already get it. Most hiring managers do.

Kathy Bates

I find that I'm fighting to keep my energy and my passion centered on the work and not on "Will this get me an Oscar?" - which is the way people are starting to talk to me. I'm not interested in the way people are starting to talk to me. I'm not interested in looking at a role that way. That's not what I ever did, and it's not how I can continue to do my work.

Katheryn Winnick

I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that you get paid is just a bonus

Kate Chopin

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

Karl A. Menninger

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.