Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Taylor

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

Jeremy Taylor

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

Jennifer Stone

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

Jemima Kirke

I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

Jello Biafra

All my different kinds of artwork have been designed to inspire people to think. They may not always agree with me, but at least they will have some feelings and some passion about whatever it is.

Jerry Jones

There are a lot of people with money, but not with the passion to really go spend it.

Jennifer James

There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.

Jeff Buckley

I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.

Jeff Bezos

Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.

Jeff Bezos

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Jeff Bezos

You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you

Jeff Bezos

You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

Jean-Paul Sartre

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is a useless passion.

Georges Cuvier

To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.

George Will

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

George Sand

The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine

George Sand

We must have a passion in life.

Jean Racine

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

Jean Racine

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!

Jean Paul

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Eoin Colfer

You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a moment passionne with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with his typical boorish behavior. Let me just throw something out there for you to consider while we're chasing the probe: I share Artemis's passion but not his boorishness. No pressure; just think about it. This was enough to elicit a deafening moment of silence even in the middle of a crisis, which Orion seemed to be blissfully unaffected by.

Elvis Costello

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

Jasper Johns

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

Jason Patric

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

Jason Mraz

One thing I'm most passionate about is that I'm geared up and ready for another cycle of touring, to go out in the world and be whoever I need to be for someone.

Hillary Clinton

The way to continue our fight now to accomplish the goals for which we stand is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama.

Hillary Clinton

The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical.

Herbert Read

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

Eva Longoria

There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.

Eva Longoria

I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

Erno Rubik

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

Ernie Harwell

I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you'd find a lot better record than you would of anybody else in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it.