Passion Quotes

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all got this level of passion about either or both of those directions that I've never really found myself having.

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship.

Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

Football will always be my foremost passion.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for "The Passion of the Christ"? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

The strongest passion is fear.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

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

I have to have a passion in my life.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.