Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woodrow Wilson

America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

Yanni

All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.

Winston Damarillo

If there is one thing to do, it is to do introspective soul searching to find your passion.

Wilma Mankiller

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

William Warburton

Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.

Zachary Quinto

My passion is acting, and has always been. It's what brought me to this point of being able to diversify and do other things, and I hope it's something I'll continue to have a passion for.

Zachary Levi

Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.

Zakk Wylde

You have to have passion for what you're doing.

Zakk Wylde

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.

Zane Grey

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.

Zig Ziglar

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.

William H. Macy

The only reason an indie gets made is because someone has a burning passion to do it and won't take no for an answer, as opposed to a big film, which is like a train that starts rolling down the tracks and nothing can stop it.

William Hazlitt

Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch.

William Hazlitt

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

William Hazlitt

Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.

William Hazlitt

Principle is a passion for truth.

William Hazlitt

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

William Hazlitt

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

William Hazlitt

Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

William Hazlitt

An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.

William E. Gladstone

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

Walter Pater

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.

Walter Pater

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Walter Raleigh

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Walter Raleigh

Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover

W. Somerset Maugham

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

Warren Buffett

Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.

Warren Buffett

Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.

Vincent Van Gogh

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

Vincent Van Gogh

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

Will Hermes

Whats the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.

Wayne Dyer

Let the world know why you're here, and do it with passion.