Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Groff

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

Larry McMurtry

Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.

Lady Gaga

I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.

Lewis H. Lapham

To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

Leonard Bernstein

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

Joyce Meyer

Passion is a decision about how we will approach life, before it becomes a feeling!

Joseph Wambaugh

I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

Joseph Story

Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.

Joseph Story

The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day.

Joseph Campbell

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

Pedro Almodovar

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

Peter F. Hamilton

The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.

Paulo Coelho

The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions — hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity — also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.

Peter Paul Rubens

My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.

Philip Pullman

I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity.

Rachel Cusk

That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

Q-Tip

I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.

Pythagoras

None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.

Pythagoras

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Placido Domingo

When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

Pitbull

I'm so passionate about making good music.

Madame de Stael

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.

Haruki Murakami

Passion can’t sustain itself forever.

Haruki Murakami

There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

Harlan Ellison

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.

Hani Furstenberg

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

Gustave Moreau

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

Gustave Flaubert

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.

Gustave Flaubert

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.