Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Krakauer

When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.

Jon Bon Jovi

Passion + Persistence = Possibility

Jon Bon Jovi

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray. On the other hand, we can’t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody’s goal and perfection shouldn’t be either. We’ll never be perfect. But remember these three P’s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.

Jon Bon Jovi

Nothing is as important as passion.

Lynn Margulis

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

Luc de Clapiers

If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.

Sherry Turkle

Hold on to your passion - you'll need it!

Sherwood Anderson

Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when adventure was a possible thing for her. Particularly she remembered one who had for a time been her lover and who in the moment of his passion had cried out to her more than a hundred times, saying the same words madly over and over: "You dear! You dear! You lovely dear!" The words, she thought, expressed something she would have liked to have achieved in life.

Nicolas Chamfort

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

Nicolas Chamfort

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

Nicolas Chamfort

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

Nicolas Chamfort

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

Nicolas Chamfort

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Nicolas Chamfort

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

Nicolas Chamfort

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

Nicolas Cage

In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger wherever that may have come from. As I got older, it became or is coming more from a place of wanting to use the craft to help others in some way, to hold a mirror up to the situations that we're going through, to actually be more cautious about the way that I use the power of film and to see if there's anything that I can do in the performances that will resonate in the public a similar string that's on people's minds and is on my mind. That way we have that relationship.

Nicolas Cage

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

Nicolas Cage

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate.

Nicolas Cage

I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.

Nick Woodman

If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.

Nick Vujicic

If you have the desire and passion to do something, and it's within God's will, you will achieve it.

Nick Clegg

My head spins. One moment I'm told I'm too edgy, then people say I'm too angry, then that I show too much passion... make your minds up.

Noomi Rapace

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

Nora Roberts

It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life

Nikolai Gogol

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

Nikolai Berdyaev

The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First and foremost the world is passion. But passion is associated with sadness. Sadness does not only arise from death which makes us face the Eternity, but also from life which causes us to confront the Time.

Nikolai Gogol

What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

Nikolai Gogol

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

Nikolai Gogol

Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.

Nikola Tesla

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

Nicole Jordan

Abduction is a romantic expression of passion.

Nas

My first record - it was 1991. I was 16 years old. My first album came out when I was 20. So, I've been here that long and I still have the passion to do it.