My Passion Quotes
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.
I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.
Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.
There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive.
My main hope for my children would be that whatever profession or calling they choose in life, that they pursue it with passion.
Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.
I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.
I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It's my passion.
Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.
The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.
The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.
I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.
My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls you down and erases passion.
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.
Stuart is good for Manchester City. It is not hard to see his passion for the game, and his commitment. (on Stuart Pearce)
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.
The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.
I love swimming, swimming's my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really do enjoy swimming, but swimming for me is simply a way of carrying a message.
We didn't keep track of how many miles we ran back then. We just ran. If you LOVE to run with the kind of passion I have for running, you will understand this. Running was my mode of transportation.
No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.
A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
My passion should be clear and please know it runs deep within all levels of my consciousness. I feel it. I feel everything.
Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.
That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.
As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.
Working out is a healthy habit: it helps you stay light and energetic. At least, that is how it works for me, and over the years it has been one of my greatest passions.
Wake up every morning thankful for everything that God gave you, and make your passion your purpose in life.
Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.