Quotes about pass
passion gambling years
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it. Omar Sharif
passion way bigs
I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing. Omar Sharif
passion gave-up my-passion
I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost. Omar Sharif
passion want naysayers
Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want. Oprah Winfrey
passion purpose follow-your-passion
Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose. Oprah Winfrey
passion two pity
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. Oliver Goldsmith
passion hands may
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket. Oliver Goldsmith
passion first-love media
I'm thankful that I proved myself in music which is my first love, my first passion before I got involved in this media. I am hoping to bring it back to the music now. Kid Rock
passion able hacking
I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking. Kevin Mitnick
passion people achievement
Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them. Ken Robinson
passion loving-what-you-do self
Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self. Ken Robinson
passion holiday media
My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of. Margaret Beckett
passion fiction literature
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. Lafcadio Hearn
passion paradise
Paradise is to love many things with a passion. Pablo Picasso
passion fate justice
It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it. Pablo Picasso
passion law ideas
It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so. Paul Singer
passion other-worlds people
I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is. Paul McGann
passionate passive naive
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. Paul Mooney
passion men views
His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or even interest in, humanity in particular. He saw the people with whom he dealt, his comrades, not as individuals but as receptacles for his ideas. On that basis, and no other, they were judged. He judged man not by their moral qualities but by their views, or rather the degree to which they accepted his. Paul Johnson
passing-by moments that-moment
Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment. Paul Cezanne
passion zinc joy
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over. Oscar Wilde
passion men people
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde
passion prison
I am happy in my prison of passion Oscar Wilde
passion differences long
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. Oscar Wilde
passion secret sphinx
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. Oscar Wilde
passion class easy
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. Oscar Wilde
passion deceived
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Oscar Wilde
passion simple new-experiences
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion. Oscar Wilde
passion differences littles
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. Oscar Wilde
passion people
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do. Oscar Wilde
passion evil imagination
There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own. Oscar Wilde
passion men legacy
Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead. Oscar Wilde
passion men squares
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion. Oscar Wilde