Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois Fenelon

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

Francois Mauriac

A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.

George Crabbe

A master passion is the love of news.

Lord Acton

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

Lord Acton

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Passion makes every detail important.

Hermann Hesse

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

Joseph Addison

There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.

Joseph Addison

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

Jose Rizal

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

Jose Marti

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

Jorge Amado

That’s the very reason why love is eternal,’ concluded João Fulgêncio, ‘because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

Jonny Lang

My passion is for playing music and although everyone needs a break sometimes just to keep things interesting and fresh, there's no way I would ever give that up.

Joni Mitchell

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

Joni Mitchell

I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

Jonathan Tropper

I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened me up, too, stirred my passion and heightened my every sensation. Which was great, until she left me and all my heightened senses to deal with the heartache of losing her.

Jonathan Swift

How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

Kevin Rudd

Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.

Kevin Spacey

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

Kenneth Clark

Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression of all the passions, the animal forces, the Caliban gruntings and groanings which are left in human nature when the divine has been poured away. Leonardo was less concerned than his Gothic predecessors with the ethereal parts of our nature, and so his caricatures, in their expression of passionate energy, merge imperceptibly into the heroic.

Keke Palmer

Singing was my first passion. Whenever I sing, I'm always so happy.

Kellan Lutz

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.

Kurt Cobain

I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's beter to burn out than to fade away.

Kevyn Aucoin

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.

Kevyn Aucoin

I'm very passionate about what I do.

Khalil Gibran

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Khalil Gibran

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Khalil Gibran

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

Khalil Gibran

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

Khalil Gibran

The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.

Jonathan Swift

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

Jonathan Sacks

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.