Passion Quotes

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

I think there's a passion for God like never before.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

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

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.

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

I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion.

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

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.

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.

We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.