Passion Quotes

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

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.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

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

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

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.

But my biggest passion is football.

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

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Live with passion!

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Our passion is our strength.

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

Food is a passion. Food is love.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.