Famous Quotes & Sayings

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

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

If it had one more vote it would have passed the Senate.

Anais Nin

The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.

Jamie Dixon

We made our first how many shots. Our passing was the thing. If anything, we got the shots we needed.

William Butler Yeats

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

Dennis Hastert

If the Senate passes it, we'll pass it.

I got very hammered, threw up and passed out. After that I drank, but not very often.

If they can pass the drug screen, they'll get work.

Gary Bettman

He was a splendid athlete, a passionate player and someone who never hesitated to speak his mind.

He was a proud guy, and he worked really hard. He had a passion for this business.

Bob Wright

He was all heart. He had the passion and it takes that passion to make something of yourself in the restaurant business.

Kris Benson

He was very passionate about anything that he did.

He'd see the pass rush and just start running around. I told him we weren't doing that anymore.

Ella Wilcox

Whatever the task that comes your way,Just take it as part of your luck.Look it right square in the eyes, and say,""This is MY task, I'll do it to-day"":Don't pass the buck.

We've been wanting to do it for a while, we talked about it more seriously after Peter passed away.

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.

Blake Mycoskie

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

Blaise Pascal

When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

Blaise Pascal

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

Blaise Pascal

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

Blaise Pascal

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Our passion is our strength.

Bill Hybels

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

Charles Spurgeon

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

Azar Nafisi

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Ayn Rand

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.