Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Charron

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

Philippe Halsman

This fascination with the human face has never left me... Every face I see seems to hide and sometimes, fleetingly, to reveal the mystery of another human being... Capturing this revelation became the goal and passion of my life.

Philippa Gregory

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

Philippa Gregory

I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.

Rabindranath Tagore

When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

Rabindranath Tagore

Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.

Peter Zumthor

I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money

Peter Zumthor

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

Peter Abelard

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

Pete Cashmore

That's really been my passion: to communicate to a broad audience why the technology matters for you.

Pete Cashmore

The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

Paulo Coelho

We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless.

Paulo Coelho

When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated focus," although I've yet to find out what term historians should use).

Peter Shaffer

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

Quentin Tarantino

I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.

Pliny the Elder

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

Plutarch

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

Plutarch

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

Philip Yancey

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

Polybius

The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are no longer willing to submit to control, but demand that everything be subject to their authority. The invariable result is that government assumes the noble names of free and popular, but becomes in fact the most execrable thing, mob rule.

Pope Benedict XVI

Rock. . . is the expression of elemental passions...In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.

Naturi Naughton

One thing I'm passionate about is directing. I've always wanted to direct.

Naturi Naughton

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and Im always going to want to do it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

Victor Hugo

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

Victor Hugo

The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

Vernon Howard

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way

Robert Boswell

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

Richard Wagner

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

Richard Madeley

When we first got together, one of the things me and Judy had in common was a passion for the correct use of the apostrophe

Rene Descartes

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

Rene Descartes

Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.