Quotes about passion
passion challenges friendly
Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might intimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope. James A. Baldwin
passion numbers world
You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!
passion darkness sake
It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.
passion army sacrifice
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.
passion acting entertainment
Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment. Jada Pinkett Smith
passion actors want
It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work. Christopher Lambert
passion games hustle
The only differentiator in the game is your passion and your hustle. Gary Vaynerchuk
passion actors crafts
Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her. Fritz Weaver
passion heat stills
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. George Chapman
passion memorable color
The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion. Christian Louboutin
passion matter this-life
Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life. Chris Shays
passionate crosses interest
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present. Chris Marker
passionate want painting
Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting. Chris Gardner
passion plan-b plans
There is no plan B for passion
passionate bronte austen
I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen. Frances O'Connor
passion army men
When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among such People, as compose the bulk of an Army, that they are influenced by any other principles than those of Interest, is to look for what never did, and I fear never will happen George Washington
passion envy brilliant
Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.
passion culture action
Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie [Sanders] got to this idea of the vanishing middle class sooner and with more passion than more mainstream politicians, and benefited from it. The difference, of course, is that Bernie understood this in a more compassionate framework, and talked about it in conjunction with a revitalization of another part of the American project, which is the notion that we are all created equal, and that our laws and culture and action ought to reflect that. George Saunders
passion sacred way
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself. George Santayana
passion knowing matter
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
passion recognition contemplation
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.
passion thinking fancy
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
passion plot needs
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. George Meredith
passion boys mad
In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is quite mad with passion, he may add: "I rather fancy you, in fact. George Mikes
passion science boys
I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively. G. H. Hardy
passion slave reason
Reason is the slave of passion. Fyodor Dostoevsky
passion past annoyed
All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it. Friedrich Nietzsche
passion intellectual laziness
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
passion experience
Without passions you have no experience whatever.
passion mean roots
An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
passion muse my-passion
Nature's my muse and it's been my passion. Frans Lanting
passion sake alive
The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake. Franz Boas
passion first-love lust
Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals Jeanette Winterson