Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ruskin

Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

John Ruskin

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Matthew Arnold

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

Matthew Arnold

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

Meg Wolitzer

We are all here, on this earth for only one go around. And everyone thinks their purpose is to just find their passion. But perhaps our purpose is to find what other people need.

Meg Wolitzer

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

Meg Whitman

Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.

May Sarton

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people ...

May Sarton

Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

Maya Angelou

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

Max Walker

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

Matthew McGrory

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

Matthew Davis

If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves, in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.

Mark Shields

All about midterm elections is turnouts. And turnout is measured by enthusiasm, intensity, how interested are people. And President Obama - candidate Obama had it on his side in 2008. The Democrats had it on their side in 2006. The enthusiasm, the intensity, the passion was all on their side.

Marina Tsvetaeva

What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.

Marina Abramovic

You create a friendship on a level that you've never done before. The basic kind of experience is to basically give love to total strangers all the time, and that really changed everything in me. And this piece transformed me more than any other one before. I saw my entire life differently. What do I have to do? What is my passion on this planet? I'm much more focused than I ever was before.

Maria Montessori

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

Patricia Highsmith

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

Patricia Briggs

She understood his passion because she felt the same way: as if nothing was more important than the touch of her skin to his, as if she'd die if he left her.

Pablo Casals

I don't have hobbies. I have passions.

Pablo Neruda

Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

Plato

Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

Plato

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

Philip Slater

Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.

Philipp Lahm

The most essential quality in the game is passion

Philip Zimbardo

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

Philip Zimbardo

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

Paula Abdul

I dance because I have to, because I'm so passionate about it.

Paula Abdul

If you lead with passion anything is possible!

Martin Parr

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

Laurie Metcalf

Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.