Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Addams

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

Jane Austen

It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.

Jan Hammer

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Janis Joplin

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

Janet Guthrie

Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.

Janet Guthrie

Racing is a calling, a passion.

Janet Jackson

I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Brian Chesky

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

Brian Chesky

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world,

Bret Michaels

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

Bret Easton Ellis

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

Booth Tarkington

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

Bob Dylan

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

Boris Pasternak

They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.

Bridgit Mendler

I'm really passionate about music.

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..