Quotes About Passion

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

situation. He was of no color, John Brown, of no race or age. He was pure passion.… He was an elemental force like wind, rain, and fire."7

If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.

The dog-show virus is as insidious and as potent as a Borgian poison. Once let man or woman fall under its spell, and the winning of a blue ribbon seems more important than the winning of a college degree. The purple Winner Rosette is worth a fortune. The annexation of the mystic prefix, "Champion," to a loved dog's name is an honor comparable to the Presidency.

Ferris was infected with the most virulent form of that weird malady as "dog-showitis." At first he had been tempted solely by the hope of winning the hundred-dollar prize. But latterly the urge of victory had gotten into his blood. And he yearned, too, to let the world see what a marvelous dog was his.

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you'll be a success.

Los años arrugan la piel, pero renunciar al entusiasmo arruga el alma.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

No es mejor apagar en un amor fácil la sed del alma, que devora la tranquilidad del espíritu?

quem ama nunca sabe o que ama Nem sabe por que ama, nem o que é amar ... Amar é a eterna inocência, E a única inocência não pensar...

Las guerras ocurren por culpa del deseo. Porque no nos separamos del animal, porque no lo mantenemos a raya, porque dejamos que nos ocupe todo el cuerpo y que nos vuelva animales...

Y por primera vez capto que ser joven no significa sólo tener pocos años, sino sentir más de la cuenta, sentir tanto que crees que vas a explotar.

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

L'innamoramento è una catastrofe esistenziale che ci coinvolge in maniera radicale anche se del tutto oscura.

mi innamorai nella sola maniera in cui sono capace di innamorarmi: lentissimamente, cominciando quasi con l'indifferenza e finendo con la passione.

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Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.

Alcuin was my name: learning I loved.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.