Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have I experienced the most violent form of sensual pleasure? I have.

Aubrey O'Day

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

Bertrand Russell

When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.

Bertrand Russell

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home...

Bertrand Russell

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

Bertrand Russell

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Benjamin Disraeli

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Benjamin Disraeli

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

C. S. Lewis

We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Carson McCullers

Passion is more important than justice.

Carl T. Rowan

The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

Alan Lightman

Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.

Al Davis

We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here.

Obviously, we feel pretty passionate about this issue.

Martin Parr

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

Elizabeth Bishop

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Elizabeth Bowen

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

Elizabeth Bowen

Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.

Elizabeth Bowen

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

Elizabeth Bowen

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Deepak Chopra

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

Deepak Chopra

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Deepak Chopra

Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with.

Dominic Monaghan

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

Dave Ramsey

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

Dave Ramsey

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

Dave Ramsey

How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, passed you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are.

Dave Ramsey

Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.