Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't share your optimism. We can talk about this for 19 hours, because I get pretty passionate about it.

I have a passion for the transit industry.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Bill Walton

I couldn't pass it up, ... You get excited. ... It's a very prestigious program.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

C. S. Lewis

We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Carson McCullers

Passion is more important than justice.

Carl T. Rowan

The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

Alan Lightman

Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.

Al Davis

We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here.

Charles Darwin

The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion.

Charles Darwin

Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.

Brandy Norwood

Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut.

Arthur Symons

What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

Anzia Yezierska

This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!

Bruce Hornsby

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

Bruce Lee

There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.

Edwin Arnold

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

Edward Young

Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.

Edmund Spenser

Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

Edmund Burke

Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.

Edmund Burke

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Edmund Burke

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Edmund Burke

Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.

Edmund Burke

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute..

Edmund Burke

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Eckhart Tolle

It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.

Dwight Howard

The toughest part for me is the city - the people. They've got burgers named after me in Orlando, they've got a Web site saying, "Please stay." I love the people in the city. I've literally sat on the bench with a towel on my head crying, because I feel the passion in the stands.