Quotes About Passion

I love this city. I love all cities. I'm in love with everyone and everything.

You're better than this. Be with me. Be my wife, my love, my life. Share my wealth. Own my heart. Be my countess. You are tender, utterly sensuous, and in your own naughty way you are pure.

Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation.

Are you very much attached to money?' asked Stephen. 'I love it passionately,' said Jack, with truth ringing clear in his voice. 'I have always been poor, and I long to be rich.

Word of all this had reached Diana, an unusually passionate, impulsive woman; she had written to him in unusually passionate, impulsive terms and his letter was designed to do away with her resentment of what she saw not as immoral conduct (she had no particular objection to immoral conduct) but as an intolerable public affront.

What people are looking for is you. As a leader, people need you to be clear about and demonstrate a passion for your purpose. They want to know that you practice your values consistently. And they absolutely want to know that you lead from your heart as well as your head. People are not looking for you to say the perfect words. They are looking for you to show up, being absolutely real and believable. They are seeking to believe.

a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.

When a tree is burning with fierce flames, how can the birds congregate therein? Truth cannot dwell where passion lives. He who does not know this, though he be a learned man and be praised by others as a sage, is beclouded with ignorance.

and contrast him with the highest God who had nothing to do with the creation. As the demiurge created the world, he has a right to it, but he was overcome through the death of Jesus. The demiurge thought to conquer Jesus when he let him die on the cross, but his triumph was preposterous, for through the passion and death of the innocent Jesus the victory of God was won and the salvation of mankind became established.

Some of us are sinning because we aren't angry enough over what makes God angry.

Stories were my passion, whether they were from books, comics or cartoons. I learned them all by heart and was as familiar with the characters as if they were members of my own family.

BACH! A colossal syllable, one which makes composers tremble, brings performers to their knees, beatifies the Bach-lover, and apparently bores the daylights out of everyone else

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire.

no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it."1

Nearly all makers have day jobs early in their careers.

In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles. Sometimes you get excited about a new project and you want to work sixteen hours a day on it. Other times nothing seems interesting.

When a student comes and asks, Should I become a mathematician? the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

This was their religion, their faith. Che was their Jesus Christ: "Like a Christian seeking to emulate the life of Christ," Rudd remembered, "I passionately wanted to be a revolutionary like Che, no matter what the cost."36

I'm asking you to tap into another set of feelings—understanding and compassion for people of color; outrage at injustice; courage, passion, and commitment to building a democratic, multicultural, and just society. Concentrate on what it is we can do, how we can make a difference.

I've always been a big fan of being alive.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.

When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.