Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herodotus

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Heinrich Heine

The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

Hideo Kojima

Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view conveys all of these aspects of identity.

Henry Ward Beecher

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Henry Clay

I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old ....

Helen Clark

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A great passion has no partner.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Kurt Cobain

I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's beter to burn out than to fade away.

Kevyn Aucoin

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.

Kevyn Aucoin

I'm very passionate about what I do.

Khalil Gibran

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Khalil Gibran

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Khalil Gibran

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

Khalil Gibran

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

Khalil Gibran

The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.

Jonathan Swift

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

Jonathan Sacks

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Passions change, politics are immutable.

Odilon Redon

The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

Og Mandino

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

Norman Mailer

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

Norman MacCaig

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

Orson Pratt

The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk

Oscar de la Renta

I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.

Olympia Dukakis

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

Oliver Stone

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

Oliver Sacks

Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a substance, or the way it was transformed in chemical reactions, never forgot anything he read, or was told, about the phenomena of chemistry. He seemed indifferent, or inattentive, to most things else, being wholly dedicated to his single passion, chemistry. It was this pure and passionate absorption in phenomena-noticing everything, forgetting nothing-that constituted Scheele's special strength.