Passion Quotes

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

Everything I do is part of my passion.

When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

People like passion in politics.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.

That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I've had such a passion for TV and films. I can't do anything else.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

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

It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn't thinking about hockey is important.

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

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.