Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virgil Virgil

Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.

Barry Manilow

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time. No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right. I am totally committed to my music and my fans.

Berthe Morisot

In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment=love of the intellect; I can answer: passion=the love of the body.

C. S. Lewis

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

C. S. Lewis

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

Carrie Brownstein

What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like 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.

Bethany Hamilton

Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it’s my passion, my love and it’s a part of me,

Mark Twain

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

Carrie Fisher

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it

Bertrand Russell

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

Ned Zachar

I don't envy the FCC's job here. This is an incredibly tricky decision.

George Will

Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up.

Tom Stoppard

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

Jacob Tamme

I envy the perseverance of everybody in this school. And I know how much they must look up to Terry.

John Glenn

I envy Neil for that wonderful, wonderful experience.

Elbert Hubbard

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Alexander Crummell

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

Alfred Adler

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Alvin Ailey

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Carl Jung

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

Jean de La Fontaine

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

George Bernard Shaw

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

Eric Clapton

I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

George Herbert

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.