Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Gehry

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

George Etherege

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

George Eliot

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

George Eliot

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

Fawn M. Brodie

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

F. L. Lucas

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

Ezra Pound

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Euripides

In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

Francis Collins

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

Francis Ford Coppola

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

Francine Rivers

Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.

Francis Bacon

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

Francis Bacon

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs,

Francis Bacon

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

Jennifer Ellison

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

Jeff Greenfield

For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

Jeff Goldblum

There is a fine line between passion and gas.

Jean de La Fontaine

The strongest passion is fear.

Graham Greene

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

Harriet Lerner

If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.

Ian Somerhalder

Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.

Ian Somerhalder

The world is so tremendously spectacular that every visual, sense, and sparked connection swells my unrestrained passion for life. I find I feel this the most when I am immersed in nature and sliding into the bloodstream of the wilderness.

Ian Somerhalder

So many people are working in industries that don't inspire them, to pay the bills and survive. In an ideal world, everyone would get paid to work within their passion and expand in their talents. If you have a skill, a passion, and a love for creating change, the best way to support us is to co-create with us.

Hugh Prather

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

Horace

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Guy Forget

Anything is possible as long as you have the passion.

Guy de Maupassant

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

Friedrich Nietzsche

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

George Berkeley

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

George Bernard Shaw

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.