Passion Quotes

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

I wouldn’t like to meet you when you’ve got a revolver,” said Margarita with a coquettish look at Azazello. She had a passion for people who did things well.

Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

I love to continue acting. It's my passion.

There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.

I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

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

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas and passions of the time must lend themselves to their committal.

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

Passions are the gales of life.

You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.

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

No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!

I possessed what is called the best of hearts -- a dangerous possession, as it is generally accompanied by the strongest passions, and the weakest judgment.

I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

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

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.

People who achieve their goals do so with passion, planning, persistence and purpose.