Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Theroux

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

Paul Keating

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

Patrick Stewart

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

Patrick Dixon

Connect with all the passions people have -for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing.

Patrick Dixon

Volunteering is a window into the passions of the soul.

Patrick Dempsey

If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

John Pilger

Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

John Piper

Don't coast through life without a passion.

John Piper

Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.

John Piper

If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

John Piper

Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.

John Piper

The root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great legal work that needs to be done to protect human life, the greatest work that needs to be done is to spread a passion - a satisfaction for the supremacy of God in all things. That's our calling.

John Piper

There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.

John Piper

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.

Marilyn French

It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?

Nicole Kidman

If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

Nicole Kidman

I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It's almost as if you're drawn to it.

Nick Jonas

Acting has always been a passion of mine, so any opportunity that allows me to do that is definitely of interest to me.

Nalini Nadkarni

If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.

P. G. Wodehouse

But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?''Quite correct.' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion.

Ovid

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

Ovid

What is reason now was passion heretofore.

Ovid

The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]

Paul Newman

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

Matthew Fox

When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.

Marya Mannes

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.

Mary Wollstonecraft

An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.

Marsilio Ficino

The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking.

Martha Graham

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

Martha Beck

Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward...

Martha Beck

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.