Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.

William Butler Yeats

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

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

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.

Kris Benson

He was very passionate about anything that he did.

Charles Darwin

The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion.

Charles Darwin

Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.

Blake Mycoskie

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

Blaise Pascal

When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

Blaise Pascal

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

Blaise Pascal

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

Blaise Pascal

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Our passion is our strength.

Bill Hybels

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

Charles Spurgeon

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

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.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Ayn Rand

Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have I experienced the most violent form of sensual pleasure? I have.

Aubrey O'Day

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

Bertrand Russell

When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.

Bertrand Russell

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home...

Bertrand Russell

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

Bertrand Russell

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Benjamin Disraeli

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Benjamin Disraeli

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.