Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.

William Wordsworth

In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.

William Shatner

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

William McFee

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

William McNamara

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

William McNamara

Everything I do is to support my passion, and that is the rescuing of animals!

William McNamara

You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!

William James

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

Sarah Brady

It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime.

Sara Zarr

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.

Sara Bareilles

I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.

William Faulkner

Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.

Willem de Kooning

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Saint Francis de Sales

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

Saint Augustine

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Saint Augustine

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

Saint Augustine

Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

Saint Augustine

As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established.

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.