Famous Quotes & Sayings

Placido Domingo

When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

Pitbull

I'm so passionate about making good music.

Madame de Stael

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.

Haruki Murakami

Passion can’t sustain itself forever.

Haruki Murakami

There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.

Haruki Murakami

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

Harlan Ellison

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.

Hani Furstenberg

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

Gustave Moreau

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

Gustave Flaubert

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.

Gustave Flaubert

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

John Dryden

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

John Dryden

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

John Dryden

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

John Dryden

Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

John Maeda

If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

John Lubbock

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

John Locke

The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent hearing till they have quite done; and then answering them calmly, and without noise or passion. And if it be not so in this civiliz'd part of the world, we must impute it to a neglect in education, which has not yet reform'd this antient piece of barbarity amongst us.

John Legend

Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.

John Legend

Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy in you that you really want to make something creative and make something that's going to impact the world, then go for it, do it and don't let anybody tell you no.

John Leguizamo

t is for me because I needed to do this. I really think actors shouldn't act unless they really need it in their lives. I think it has to be something that is so much a part of your chemistry, such a passion, that you can't live without it. You should not do it just because you are seeking fame or want to get rich.

John Lancaster Spalding

Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

Jodie Foster

Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.

Julie Foudy

When people tell you, "No," just smile and tell them, "Yes, I can."

Julie Davis

A true chocolate lover finds ways to accommodate his passion and make it work with his lifestyle. One key, not just to keeping weight down and staying guilt-free, but also to keeping taste buds sharp (essential for the professionals who evaluate new products as well as judge recipes), Is being discriminating.

Julie Andrews

I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across. I don't know where it comes from, that reserve or veneer of British niceness. But it doesn't bother me if other people don't spot the passion. I know it's there.

Judith Orloff

Surrendered people enjoy life, relish their personal development, and value their friends. They may have an exceptionally good career and be wealthy, but they are more concerned with meaning and fulfillment. The drive to acquire money and power is a behavior that drains people of their passion and emotional connection to others. They can admit when they're wrong.

Josh Hutcherson

I love the fan support, though, because it all comes from passion.

Joseph Hall

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.