Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

George Mason

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

Emily Perkins

I have a huge passion for literature.

Elizabeth George

If your home is a ministry, shouldn't that ministry become a passion? Shouldn't your feelings and emotions be involved when it comes to the people and place you love? And shouldn't your work be done passionately? Your labors should be labors of love!

Elizabeth Gaskell

Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them like a man. Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here. Speak to your workmen as if they were human beings. Speak to them kindly. Don't let the soldiers come in and cut down poor-creatures who are driven mad. I see one there who is. If you have any courage or noble quality in you, go out and speak to them, man to man.

Elizabeth Gaskell

I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.

Eknath Easwaran

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

John Corbett

Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.

Joel Osteen

When you stir up the passion, your faith will allow God to do amazing things. If you want to remain passionate, you cannot let what once was a miracle become ordinary.

Joan Cusack

I tend to come from a more psychological - that's sort of my passion. I'm interested in the psychology of politics as well - and obviously I'm interested in what's going on in the world - but my passion is more the psychology of people.

Jimmy Page

There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.

Lisa Kleypas

Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.

Lisa Edelstein

There needs to be passion behind what you're doing or it's not worth it,

Lionel Tiger

Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.