Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeanette Winterson

Passion is not well bred.

Jim Capaldi

I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

Jessie Ware

If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.

Jerome Bruner

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

Jeremy Taylor

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

Jeremy Taylor

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

Jennifer Stone

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

Jemima Kirke

I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

Jello Biafra

All my different kinds of artwork have been designed to inspire people to think. They may not always agree with me, but at least they will have some feelings and some passion about whatever it is.

George Eliot

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

George Eliot

All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

Gabriel Iglesias

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

Francoise Sagan

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

Francoise Sagan

The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.

George Jackson

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

Chris Hedges

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

Chris Hardwick

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.

Christine Lahti

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

Christine Feehan

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Chris LeDoux

I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.

George Takei

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.

Gene Robinson

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Gene Tierney

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Garth Brooks

The cool thing about passion is that no matter how good or bad a day you're having, tomorrow's going to be better because passion finds some way of doubling itself.

Gail Sheehy

The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

Gail Sheehy

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.