Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Bettman

He was a splendid athlete, a passionate player and someone who never hesitated to speak his mind.

He was a proud guy, and he worked really hard. He had a passion for this business.

Bob Wright

He was all heart. He had the passion and it takes that passion to make something of yourself in the restaurant business.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

Frank Thomas

The passion on this team is like I've never seen before in my 15 years here,

Abraham Lincoln

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Orson Scott Card

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and...ah, this above all...their conversation.

Chris Chelios

We wanted to play with passion and excitement, and we did that. We could have very well have won the game. We played well enough to win.

Martin Henderson

There is nothing I feel that connected or passionate about that would take me away from acting.

Jurnee Smollett

I have so many passions outside of my passion for acting.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

William Shakespeare

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

William Shakespeare

Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.

William Shakespeare

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

Barry Manilow

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time. No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right. I am totally committed to my music and my fans.

Berthe Morisot

In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment=love of the intellect; I can answer: passion=the love of the body.

C. S. Lewis

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

C. S. Lewis

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

Carrie Brownstein

What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.

Carrie Fisher

I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

Carl Sagan

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species.

Bethany Hamilton

Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it’s my passion, my love and it’s a part of me,

Bethany Hamilton

Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.

Bethany Hamilton

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions,

Bernard Berenson

Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

Ashton Kutcher

I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.

Antoine Rivarol

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Antoine Rivarol

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Antoine Rivarol

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

Bill Vaughan

He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.

Bertrand Russell

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

My siblings and I were raised to be very hardworking and to find something that we're passionate in, and to be able to turn that into work - I'm lucky to be able to say that I've done that.

Pat Gillick

I still have the drive, the competitiveness, the passion.