Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

C. S. Lewis

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

C. S. Lewis

Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

Agnes de Mille

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

Agnes de Mille

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Agnes Repplier

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

Charles Dudley Warner

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

Charles de Gaulle

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

Charles de Gaulle

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

David Sedaris

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Dave Barry

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

Jane Austen

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

Jane Austen

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Brian Tracy

Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.

Brian Tracy

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

Brian Tracy

Always focus on accomplishments rather than activities.

Brian Tracy

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

Brian Tracy

You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment

Alan Sugar

I like to be a very fair person.

Susan B. Anthony

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Cheri Huber

A person who is without fear cannot be controlled.

Eckhart Tolle

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

Basmah bint Saud

I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.

Ashley Olsen

I'm the most private person.

Brad Feld

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Camille Paglia

I am a very reclusive, private person.