Passion Quotations | Page 6

My head spins. One moment I'm told I'm too edgy, then people say I'm too angry, then that I show too much passion... make your minds up.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

My daughter is my passion and my life.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be driven and be nice.

I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.

Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates.

It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

CoverGirl's Girls CAN movement is perfectly aligned with my passion for helping young women overcome life's challenges, and my commitment to highlighting girls' successes. I am thrilled to partner with CoverGirl to embark on this exciting journey to improve the lives of girls and women in the world.

Any character can find an audience and work if you have passion for that character. You might have to just scrape off the dirt and the barnacles and pull it out and highlight it.

What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.

Everything I do is part of my passion.

I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

American Made is not just an event. It's a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are turning their passion for making into thriving small businesses.

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

The only burning passion I'm sure I have is the passion for sex.

I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

When watching 'The Passion,' Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and killed. For the same two hours, Jews watch Jews arrange the killing and torture of the Christians' Savior.

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

I went to Wimbledon before I could walk. It's just been a lifelong passion.

To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.

My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.

What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.

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.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

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

Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there.

For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

I have such a passion because I adore animals so much.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

I knew if I stayed in London my whole life would be dancing. I'd won almost every major title you can. I thought 'This really isn't my passion. I really want to sing,' and I knew I wouldn't be able to if I stayed there.

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.

I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.

I didn't grow up around my father. I didn't really grow up around my mother, either. I was raised by a community of people. Spiritually speaking, my father is in Heaven, and that is who I look to for all my answers. And that's why my faith is very strong and why my passion is strong.

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.

I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.