Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs,

Francis Bacon

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

Frances O'Connor

I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

I wanted people to be more than just passive consumers. I wanted them to be part of it.

It was supposed to be a pass play,

Erwin McManus

When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.

Erwin McManus

To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.

Erwin McManus

When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.

Florence Nightingale

Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

Florence Nightingale

Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?

Fisher Ames

The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them by their demagogues... and the violent men, who are the most forward to gratify those passions, will be their favorites. What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of such men. Here, then, we have the faithful portrait of democracy.

Henry Moore

Being an artist is celebrating life.

Henry Miller

One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you.

Henry Miller

As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.

Henry Miller

Develop an Interest in Life as you see it.

Henri Frederic Amiel

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks

Henri Frederic Amiel

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Cat Osterman

I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days.

Cassandra Clare

I am brave," Will said... "Yes, you are," Magnus said, and kissed him. It wasn't the most dramatic kiss, but Will failed his free arm as if a bee had landed on him; Magnus had to hope Camille would assume this was passion. When they broke apart, Will looked stunned. So did Camille, for that matter. ... Will swung sideways...He dashed across the room, retrieved it, and tucked it into Magnus's waistcoat pocket. Then, with a wink at Camille that, Magnus thought, God alone knew how she would interpret, he sauntered out of the room.

George Eliot

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

George Eliot

Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own... You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.

George Eliot

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

Steve was a tough businessman who also had a passionate side. He always wanted to give back to the community, but he didn't want the recognition. He wouldn't like this at all.

It's important to have people who are passionate about service, people with integrity, and people who are willing to work all year long for the students.

Joseph Joubert

Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions - repressed.

It's a passive chip. It emits no signal whatsoever. It's the same thing as a keycard.

It's a project that we're passed the point of no return,

It kind of scared me. I'm not usually prepared for a car to pass me that fast.

It's different. You have to be a running back, a receiver and a pass protector.

Laura Bush

Each one of them are passionate advocates for the people of Connecticut.