Passion Quotes (1643 Quotes)

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

It was a bit of a revenge game, but I think we had some first-game jitters. The first half they made it difficult for us. They played with a lot of energy and passion. The second half we regrouped and it went as how we had hoped. We played much more compo

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

They have the money, the people, the technology and the sponsors. It's NewmanHaas. But the spirit is something that has surprised me. You really feel the passion. They are real racers, from Carl and Paul all the way to the guys who drive the trucks.

Just to see the kind of passion we played with in that game, even when things didn't go right. That's how you've got to play. And when you don't, the result will be what happened (in Kansas City) when you don't play a game like everything's on the line.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.

I did not want to lose on Gene's big night. He is so deserving of the honor. I wanted our players to play with the passion and enthusiasm that would be appropriate in honoring him.

Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment. . . . Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new . . .

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny finally and ultimately sated... but enough about the pork.

She has moved ahead in our team because she does a good job, and has worked hard over many years. She also has a passion for cars which is a good background.

I feel good about our chances going into this tournament based on our team. If we end up playing on Sunday for that championship, I think our confidence is going to be the biggest thing. And passion, heart. We've got so much on this team, it's incredible.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Since my young days of passion - joy or pain Perchance my heart and harp have lost a string - And both may jar.

A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.

A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.

When we began to think about our clients' interests, we discovered a common passion for motorcycles. Therefore, we created an event that is centered on that common passion. This passion for riding, coupled with the need to learn about the latest models of John Deere equipment has led to our employees, vendors and customers having a fantastic day together.

There was no question in my mind that Leyland was the leading candidate if he had the passion. I didn't know that until we interviewed him. Both candidates were made aware that we had a leading candidate. I had been given indications by people that he had it, but it didn't take long to see that he had the passion.

I have never had either the passion, or the interest, or the circumstances of meeting him, it's very curious, I guess these are the necessary paradoxes that lead one to be prime minister of the government.

To its supporters, the passion that the film creates is really unlike the feelings that any other film has generated among its supporters in the last seven years. That passion among its supporters is what gives us a great chance at victory on March 5th.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

You never want to give a fan a chance to find out whether it was passion or habit. I think for the great majority it's still a passion, but others have discovered that maybe it was something else. And so, as much as this can be problematic in the U.S. and that's where it's usually talked about, I think it's also a problem in this country.

She's such a wonderful administrator. We cannot locate any deficiencies in her performance whatsoever. We think she's just a combination of leadership skills, educational expertise, vision, passion and hard work. She's got it all.

It will backfire if they start dispersing rallies and arresting people. It will arouse the passion of unaffected citizens.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

The youth have a passion for film.

I felt like I owed the team something. I'm very relieved (to have scored the winning goal). People don't understand. ... This is something you do with passion.

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its deities. Of all unbeautiful and inappropriate conceptions this is the most reasonless and offensive. The notion of symbolizing sexual love by a semisexless babe, and comparing the pains of passion to the wounds of an arrow --of introducing this pudgy homunculus into art grossly to materialize the subtle spirit and suggestion of the work --this is eminently worthy of the age that, giving it birth, laid it on the doorstep of prosperity.

Oh it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

Tennis for me is the same whether I'm playing in a tournament or instructing, ... I just have a passion for the sport and love the game. That's what I tell all the kids I work with about life. Just find something you love to do and be passionate about it

. . . the law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

It's up to you to work with them to make it interesting for them to want to pursue engineering. You need to instill the passion for tools and science, as much as they now have for nonsense.

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

Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.

For those of us who play in the U.S., it was good to be reminded of the sense of passion for the game in Canada.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

You can never really master it. There is so much on the page that can't be translated onto the stage, so all you can do is learn to ride it like a surfboard. But at the same time, you can't get the passion on the page that you can get on the stage.

We had to do the translation between the regional reality and the final consumer. We have the passion, the knowledge and the patience to educate the buyers. We usher the product practically from Earth to table.

Lord, I am coming as fast as I can I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to Thee but it is but umbra mortis, a mere shadow of death... Thou, by thy merits and passion, hath broken through the jaws of death.

They are similar, and completely different. They come from the same place pure passion, hatred, scorn, lost love, the whole thing. I think you can say that for every kind of music, but there's something very authentic about when it comes from one man and his guitar, or someone just plugging in and playing, bashing away at drums and chords--it feels more real.