Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anita Diament

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

Andrew Tan

Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Andrea Arnold

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

Andre Maurois

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

Ambrose Bierce

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Ambrose Bierce

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

Alicia Keys

I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.

Alice Walker

before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

Alyson Stoner

I personally find that each instalment has a different director, cast and crew, and I've also been in a different season in my life for each of them, so I feel like each movie is a unique experience that centres around my undying passion for music and dance.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Aerin Lauder

Beauty is my heritage, but home decor is very much my passion,

Afrojack

The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.

Aeschylus

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

Richard Sherman

Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football.

Elif Safak

While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.

What we try to do is try to hassle and take things away. We just try to play with a lot of passion and a lot of heart.

Alexander Ludwig

I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people.

Alexander McQueen

There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.

Alexander Pope

And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

Alexander Pope

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

Alexander Pope

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Alexander Pope

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Alexander Pope

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

Alexander Pope

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

Alexander Pope

Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

Alexander Pope

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

E. O. Wilson

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

E. O. Wilson

Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression.

E. M. Forster

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

E. M. Forster

There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .

E. M. Forster

Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these?