Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Herjavec

Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there.

Robert Henri

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

Rick Santelli

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

Rick Pitino

When you describe passion at any age, passion is derived from everything, from the people you work with to enjoying the last years.

Rick Santorum

There are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

Rick Santorum

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that.

Rick Santorum

Everybody knows full well my passion about defeating Barack Obama. Over my dead body would I vote for Barack Obama.

Robin Hobb

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

Robert M. Pirsig

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

Walter Lippmann

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

Voltaire

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Voltaire

Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

William Lloyd Garrison

And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'

William Booth

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.

William Butler Yeats

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

William Butler Yeats

. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

William Butler Yeats

A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought....

William Butler Yeats

... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?

Walter Sickert

Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

Walter Isaacson

...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

Walter Isaacson

If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.

William Katt

Be ready, be prepared, be alert and then everybody around you will notice and they will want to share their skills with you even more. You're showing that you're enthusiastic, you care and that you're dedicated. It's not always easy, but if you've got a passion and a desire to do something then your natural energy will get you through.

Yo-Yo Ma

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

Yo-Yo Ma

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

Winston Churchill

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

William Safire

Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.

Virginia Woolf

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

Virat Kohli

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Woodrow Wilson

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

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.

Woody Allen

Jazz is a big thing with me. It's a very big passion of mine, to play it. I'm an amateur musician and I love everything about it. I was obsessed with jazz when I was 15 years old and I know a lot about it because I've loved it so much.

Woody Allen

I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.

William Wordsworth

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.