Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

C. S. Lewis

We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Carson McCullers

Passion is more important than justice.

Carl T. Rowan

The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

Alan Lightman

Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.

Al Davis

We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here.

Obviously, we feel pretty passionate about this issue.

Elizabeth Bowen

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

Elizabeth Bowen

Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.

Elizabeth Bowen

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

Elizabeth Bowen

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Deepak Chopra

Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with.

Dominic Monaghan

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

Dave Ramsey

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

Dave Ramsey

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

Dave Ramsey

How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, passed you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are.

Dave Ramsey

Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.

Dick Vitale

Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion.

Abraham Lincoln

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

She has a passion for telling the story.

We have a passion for teen girls. These are heart-threatening times for our youth. We're in a battle.

Britt Robertson

I love to continue acting. It's my passion.

Brian Greene

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

Brandon Sanderson

People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

Ben Marcus

In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.

Barbara Jordan

My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Barbara Jordan

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Baruch Spinoza

I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.

Baruch Spinoza

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

Barbara Sher

Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.