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It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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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
passion night years
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.
passion creative energy
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
passion dancer technique
Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
passion political wasps
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting. Agnes Repplier
passion oats dirt
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Charles Dudley Warner
passion desire taste
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times. Charles de Gaulle
passion equality want
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality
night reality light
At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so bored. It might be awful in those houses, of course, but I still speculate about them in a romantic way. Its the same if you are famous: you are in the light, and most people have fantasies about you, but these fantasies have nothing to do with reality. Carole Bouquet
nightlife said courses
When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself. Carl Barat
night men feet
A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.
night week like-facebook
Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily. Aaron Sorkin
night doe mathematics
Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.
night imagine reason
I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night. Charlie Daniels
night shadow hiding
You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows. Charles de Lint
night doors hands
For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter. Charles Dickens
night liberty sun
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set. Charles Caleb Colton
quality conversation made
Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine. Carol Shields
quality infinite wit
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
quality care radiation
The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care. Charles W. Pickering
quality contentment may
It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.
quality gone awful
Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking. Brian Eno
quality india compromise
We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally. Dhirubhai Ambani
quality shots
We did have some quality shots and he made some saves. Ed Comeau
quality may return
my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be... Jane Austen
quality firsts needs
We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow. Alan Chadwick