Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Chris LeDoux

I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.

George Takei

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.

Gene Robinson

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Gene Tierney

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Garth Brooks

The cool thing about passion is that no matter how good or bad a day you're having, tomorrow's going to be better because passion finds some way of doubling itself.

Gail Sheehy

The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

Gail Sheehy

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

Frank Gehry

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

George Etherege

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

George Eliot

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

George Eliot

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

Fawn M. Brodie

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

F. L. Lucas

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

Ezra Pound

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Euripides

In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

Francis Collins

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

Francis Ford Coppola

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

Francine Rivers

Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.

Francis Bacon

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

Francis Bacon

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs,

Francis Bacon

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

Jennifer Ellison

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

Jeff Greenfield

For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

Jeff Goldblum

There is a fine line between passion and gas.

Jean de La Fontaine

The strongest passion is fear.

Graham Greene

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.