Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Mason Cooley

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

Mason Cooley

Anxiety and lust are evicting the older passions.

Mason Cooley

Some live in a state of passionate indecision.

Mason Cooley

The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.

Mason Cooley

Passion cooks. Reason cleans.

Mason Cooley

Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

Mason Cooley

Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.

Mason Cooley

As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

Mason Cooley

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

Mason Cooley

Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.

Mary Karr

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

Mary Astell

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

Michael Gartner

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

Michael Franti

I have a passion to make a difference in the world. And that difference can be just making the fans at my show leave with a smile on their faces and feeling uplifted.

Michael Chabon

The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms.

Michiel Huisman

When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.

Michio Kaku

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

Michel Houellebecq

This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We’re a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented.

Martha Stewart

Our passion is and should always be to make life better.

Martha Stewart

American Made is not just an event. It's a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are turning their passion for making into thriving small businesses.

Martha Stewart

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.

Mark Zuckerberg

Find that thing you are super passionate about.

Ted Cruz

I am glad to welcome my friend Rand Paul into the 2016 GOP primary. Rand is a good friend, and we have worked side by side on many issues. I respect his talent, his passion, and the work he has done for Kentuckians and Americans in the U.S. Senate. His entry into the race will no doubt raise the bar of competition, help make us all stronger, and ultimately ensure that the GOP nominee is equipped to beat Hillary Clinton and to take back the White House for Republicans in 2016.

Theodore Roosevelt

Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly; and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular passion, the vision of the best and the bravest is dimmed.

Theodor Mommsen

Without passion, there is no genius.

Margaret Sanger

Never be ashamed of passion. If you are strongly sexed, you are richly endowed.

Margaret Mitchell

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

Margaret Mead

All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Margaret Mead

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

Margaret Mead

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Marcus Buckingham

Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.