Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelby Foote

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

Shannon Elizabeth

Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference.

Shannon Miller

...above all, you have to love what you are doing. You cannot fake passion. If you love it you can fight through the rough times and enjoy the good times.

Seth

If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do work that matters, this is it.

Lesley Nicol

I always admire people who have passion.

Leonard Peltier

I was like so many others passion-ately involved in trying to bring those truths to the world's attention. We did our very best to peacefully do that. The city, state, and federal governments did their very best to quell our efforts. They were used to using heavy-handed tactics to silence us.

Laura Prepon

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen.

Larry Elder

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

Marcus Aurelius

The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.

Marcus Aurelius

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Thomas a Kempis

We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.

Samuel Johnson

No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption of others. He whose merit has enlarged his influence would surely wish to exert it for the benefit of mankind. Yet such will be the effect of his reputation, while he suffers himself to indulge in any favourite fault, that they who have no hope to reach his excellence will catch at his failings, and his virtues will be cited to justify the copiers of his vices.

Samuel Johnson

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

Samuel Johnson

Love is only one of many passions.

Samantha Barks

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

Sam Walton

If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.

Sam Walton

I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it.

Robert Jordan

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.

Robert James Waller

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

Robertson Davies

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Robert Stone

The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.

Robert Penn Warren

What is man but his passion?

Robert M. Pirsig

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

Walt Whitman

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

Saul Alinsky

Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own experience to a new way. A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate.

Tom Brown, Jr.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

Tom Brokaw

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.

Toby Stephens

It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.

Tina Weymouth

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

Tina Fey

I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

Tim Ferriss

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

Sallust

Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light