Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

Arthur Koestler

When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.

Azar Nafisi

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Ayn Rand

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

We tried passing over the top and that didn't work; we just got killed inside. We couldn't make up for that size.

Rachel Brown

We really have to work on our passing and shooting and get better by Friday.

Charles Bukowski

I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street.

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Edward Abbey

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Edward Abbey

John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.

Edward Abbey

A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body.

Aristotle

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

Aristotle

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Aristotle

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

Aristotle

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Aristotle

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Aristotle

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

Elizabeth Bishop

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Elizabeth Bowen

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

Elizabeth Bowen

Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.

Elizabeth Bowen

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

Elizabeth Bowen

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Deepak Chopra

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

Deepak Chopra

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Deepak Chopra

Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with.

Dominic Monaghan

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

Dave Ramsey

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

Dave Ramsey

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

Dave Ramsey

How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, passed you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are.

Dave Ramsey

Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.

Dick Vitale

Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion.

We were challenging the keeper. We had a wonderful passing game.