Famous Quotes & Sayings

Layne Staley

Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

Lacey Chabert

Do what you're passionate about

John Keats

Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!

John Keats

A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.

John Keats

Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?

Julio Iglesias

Passion has been in my DNA for generations.

Juliette Binoche

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

Juliette Binoche

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.

Julianne Hough

I knew if I stayed in London my whole life would be dancing. I'd won almost every major title you can. I thought 'This really isn't my passion. I really want to sing,' and I knew I wouldn't be able to if I stayed there.

Juan Manuel Fangio

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

Joshua Lederberg

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

Joshua Reynolds

Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended to rouse the nobler passions...

Josh Billings

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

Karl Kraus

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

Karl Kraus

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

Kandyse McClure

Celebrate yourself. Follow your passions and eccentricities, because they are yours alone. You are unique! If everyone did that, I'm pretty sure there would be world peace.

Julian Fellowes

Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

Maria Shriver

The most important thing we can tell young people is not to be an imitation of somebody else. That their life is special. They are the creator of their life and their way and find something that they enjoy doing that doesn't even feel like work. It feels like a passion. And then just by doing that and bringing that to the world, they become architects of change.

Paul Theroux

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

Paul Keating

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

Patrick Stewart

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

Patrick Dixon

Connect with all the passions people have -for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing.

Patrick Dixon

Volunteering is a window into the passions of the soul.

Patrick Dempsey

If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

John Piper

Don't coast through life without a passion.

John Piper

Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.

John Piper

If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

John Piper

Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.

John Piper

The root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great legal work that needs to be done to protect human life, the greatest work that needs to be done is to spread a passion - a satisfaction for the supremacy of God in all things. That's our calling.

John Piper

There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.

John Piper

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.