Famous Quotes & Sayings

William McFee

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

William McNamara

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

William McNamara

Everything I do is to support my passion, and that is the rescuing of animals!

William McNamara

You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!

William James

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

Sarah Brady

It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime.

Sara Zarr

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.

Sara Bareilles

I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.

William Faulkner

Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.

Willem de Kooning

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Saint Francis de Sales

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

Saint Augustine

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Saint Augustine

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

Saint Augustine

As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established.

Valentino Garavani

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

Valentino Rossi

Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

Valentino Rossi

To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.

Richard Dawkins

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

Roelof Botha

Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.

Robin Hobb

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

Richard Dawkins

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Richard Wilbur

Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best - unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.

Richard Whately

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Richelle Mead

Rose was so full of life and passion that sometimes she seemed more human than I was.

Richelle Mead

Some part of you will always ... fight to cling to life and experience all it has. That's why you're so reckless in the things you do. You don't hold back your feelings, your passion, your anger. It makes you remarkable. It makes you dangerous

Richelle Mead

You shook his hand?" Adrian asked incredulously … “With all that red-hot passion, it’s a wonder you guys can stay away from each other

Richelle Mead

I couldn't recall the last time I'd seen that much of him on display. It was wonderful and frightening on the same time. I then said the stupidest thing possible. "You're not scared of anything." "I'm scared of a lot of things. I was scared for you" He released me, and I stepped back. There was still passion and worry written all over him. "I'm not perfect, I'm not invulnerable.

Rebecca West

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Ryan Kwanten

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Russell Baker

Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?

Thomas Piketty

...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.