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Quotes About Passion

I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. I dare say I shall have to retract.
~ George Eliot
For that fine madness still he did maintain,   Which always should possess the poet's brain.
~ George Eliot
You must be sure of two things: you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There's this and there's that — if I had
~ George Eliot
And a man who speaks effectively through music is compelled to something more difficult than parliamentary eloquence.
~ George Eliot
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self-- never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted.
~ George Eliot
It was said of him, that Lydgate could do anything he liked, but he had certainly not yet liked to do anything remarkable. He was a vigorous animal with a ready understanding, but no spark had yet kindled in him an intellectual passion; knowledge seemed to him a very superficial affair, easily mastered: judging from the conversation of his elders, he had apparently got already more than was necessary for mature life.
~ George Eliot
We can never give up longing and wishing while we are throughly alive
~ George Eliot
That will help us to understand how the love of accumulating money grows an absorbing passion in men whose imaginations, even in the very beginning of their hoard, showed them no purpose beyond it. Marner wanted the heaps of ten to grow into a square, and then into a larger square; and every added guinea, while it was itself a satisfaction, bred a new desire
~ George Eliot
Kebencian itu seperti api yang akan membakar habis segalanya.
~ George Elliott
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing
~ George Grosz
I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.
~ George Harrison
He begins to die, that quits his desires.
~ George Herbert
Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire: Who blows it not, nor doth control A faint desire
~ George Herbert
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Julie
~ George Lakoff
Naturally, women are drawn to a man who understands the subtlety of emotions, and they know I'm a passionate man. But the reason I try to keep myself in shape is so I can sing better, not to look good.
~ Andrea Bocelli
While it's true that women are the minority in most tech companies, I don't think that inhibits entry into the tech space. My motto has always been, 'Live What You Love,' and as such, I think it's incredibly important to do work you believe in and to work for a company that has values that align with your own, be it in tech or another industry.
~ Brit Morin
Women are amazing lovers.
~ Omari Hardwick
Spanish women are so sexy. The way they move and talk drives me crazy!
~ Mikaela Hoover
If you win a championship, you win it doing many of the same things you had to do when we won championships. You have to be unselfish. You have to work very hard. You have to be resilient. You have to have a passion for what you do.
~ Bill Bradley
Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
~ Francesco Totti
'Heirs' is really a good drama. Everyone put out their heart and soul into this series, from the actors to the whole staff. That's why I think we won awards for this drama.
~ Lee Min-ho
My favorite shot is always gonna be the forehand. It used to always be my favorite shot when I was young, so it's the one I've won all the points with.
~ Roger Federer
If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
~ Albert Brooks
To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.
~ Amisha Patel