Quotes About Passion

Che l'allievo di tanto in tanto incontri un professore pieno di entusiasmo che sembra considerare la matematica per se stessa, e la insegna come una delle Belle Arti e la fa amare in virtù della sua personale vitalità, e grazie al quale lo sforzo diventa un piacere, questo dipende dalla casualità dell'incontro, non dalla genialità dell'Istituzione.

If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...> Time to read is always time stolen. <...> Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living."- p.125

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

find what drives us

The difference between that man and me," Alan Mendelsohn said, "is that I am a connoisseur, and he is a fanatic.

It was mad and it was beautiful.

Sin un temperamento científico el ciudadano es vulnerable a la tentación de lo mágico, a la seducción de la pasión y a la tiranía del dogmatismo. Demasiada gente muere por fe y mata por dogma.

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

The theatre is irresistible, organise the theatre!

Nothing should be of higher value to the reflective Christian in difficult circumstances than an unqualified desire to see truth triumph. One should wish passionately that it prevail, should love it more than one's own prestige or sense of security.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the idea of God, not in God Himself. MIGUEL D

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society.

It is, sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it.

She took him to places inside a shaded room that he'd only dimly imagined might exist, and while there in sweaty reality he reclined like a pasha of lust, a man lost to squirts, sighs, fresh angles of entry and the enveloping stink, and to find this carnal enchantment for the first time at his age was to welcome a streaking of madness into his life—madness he prayed had no end now that it had begun.

At nineteen, she had decided that her life was her own, and she was going to use it to chase a man.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.

Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.

Y no permita que la literatura, en su caso, sustituya al amor. La literatura también es peligrosa. La vida no se puede reemplazar con nada.

I don't want to make a tea set. I want to make crystal, as the wonderful Billy Wiseass would put it. That poor bastard has it good: he's never experienced love. It'll be easy for him to write a romance novel.