No Passion Quotes
If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.
The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.
Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.
...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.
Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.
My passion for storm chasing has always been driven by the beautiful and powerful storms displayed in the heartland each spring.
A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.
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.
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian
How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.
The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving
And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.
Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.
When the fire of your soul ignites the passion within your heart, don't view it as an opportunity for success or failure, view it as an open door for miracles.
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.
The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it.
The fact that I get to live a life of passion where I'm doing only things that I love in this world and help people along the way. Life's good. I always remind myself of that.
Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.
Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves.
One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.
Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. Artists, of all people, must be willing to share their passions with the world.
That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.
