Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Haddon

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.

by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.

Paul Auster

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.

Patrick Leahy

Judiciary is where my passion is.

Pat Cash

All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed

Pat Conroy

She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it.

Julia Quinn

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

Judd Apatow

You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot of people get into that position and not make it.

Joseph Rotblat

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

Nia Long

I will say that I appreciate Hillary Clinton's awareness and passion for women. I think she is overqualified in the sense that she's been in the White House, so she knows the drill. I am hopeful that she will continue to support minorities and create better opportunities.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.

Noah Webster

Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.

Jodi Picoult

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

Mary Cassatt

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

Martin Heidegger

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

Marquis de Sade

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

Marquis de Sade

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Marquis de Sade

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

Marquis de Sade

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Marquis de Sade

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

Marquis de Sade

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

Nikki Sixx

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

Nicole Trunfio

I have such a passion for theatre.

Nicole Scherzinger

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

Nicole Krauss

Our kiss was niticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad, but it was just a note of punctuation in our long conversation, a parenthetical remark made in order to assure each other of a deeply felt agreement, a mutual offer of companionship, which is so much more rare than sexual passion or even love.

Nicola Peltz

When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it.

Nick Saban

You can't get from A to Z by passing up B.

Matt Cohen

I’d rather be around a passionate nerd than a non-passionate cool person. Because if you lack passion, your soul is diminishing by the second. You have to be passionate about something. Call it obsessed or whatever you want, but be obsessed about something. Obsessed people care. I’m passionate about so many things, it becomes an issue at certain points, but at least you have the ability to feel that much about something.