Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

William Hazlitt

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

William Hazlitt

Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

William Hazlitt

An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.

William E. Gladstone

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

Walter Pater

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.

Walter Pater

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Walter Raleigh

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Walter Raleigh

Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover

W. Somerset Maugham

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

Warren Buffett

Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.

Warren Buffett

Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.

Vincent Van Gogh

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

Vincent Van Gogh

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

Will Hermes

Whats the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.

Wayne Dyer

Let the world know why you're here, and do it with passion.

Walter Chrysler

Collecting has always been in my blood.

Virginia Woolf

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

Virginia Woolf

Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

Virginia Woolf

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Virginia Woolf

The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

Virginia Woolf

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

William Blake

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

William Blake

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

William Blake

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

William Blake

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.

William Blake

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

Werner Herzog

It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.

Wale

Some interviewers aren't even interested. They're just doing it because they gotta do it. Life is nothing without passion. Whatever you're doing, at least be passionate about it because I'm passionate about what I'm doing. I'm passionate about the words I'm saying right now. Just be passionate. When the interviews is passionate, it's more conversational and we're not covering the same ground.

Samuel Richardson

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

Samuel Richardson

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

Salma Hayek

I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.