Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

Patton Oswalt

You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation.

Henri Matisse

Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

Hattie McDaniel

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

Herodotus

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Heinrich Heine

The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

Hideo Kojima

Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view conveys all of these aspects of identity.

Henry Ward Beecher

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Henry Clay

I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old ....

Helen Clark

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A great passion has no partner.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great passions are incurable diseases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Frank Luntz

FedEx is another company that's passionate. When it absolutely, positively has to get there is such a great, aspirational phrase. And FedEx used it for almost a decade to communicate the passion of delivering a package. The more passionate you are, the more successful you are.

Frank Luntz

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

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.