Quotes About Passion

As Lincoln later told a friend, "I don't like to hear cut-and-dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees!

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

Serious converts to the game usually have some powerful motivation—perhaps unknown to them—for investing in the game at a particular time in their lives.

sergeant thinking about an excellent detective who's threatening to quit) For a squad sergeant, having Worden working for you was like having sex: When it was good it was great and even when it wasn't so hot, it was still pretty damn good.

If you want to be happy, cultivate a passion, be part of something bigger than yourself (have a Cause other than that of yourself), avoid self-absorption and self-obsession, know thyself via knowing others and connecting with others. Above all, connect to more than yourself and your immediate nearest and dearest.

Many of my colleagues operate from a mistaken notion that rational thought can come from only objective discourse, devoid of emotions. To me, speaking from the heart and with passion is not antagonistic to reason.

On his early decision to become an actor: "I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

Two struggling musicians, always broke, forever hopeful.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art

Al final de la vida nos renace la pasión de la infancia por recibir regalos, mearnos encima y decir la verdad.

Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for.

All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

T?t c? nh?ng gì cháu có th? làm trong cu?c ??i này là theo ?u?i gi?c m? c?a mình. N?u không làm ???c th? thì cháu ?ang lãng phí th?i gian ??y.

ghost rules. "What about Wagner?

Wrestling was more her kind of sport.

Nuts didn't need religion to make them nuts, Allison had long since decided, but it did seem to give them a certain added sense of commitment to whatever goals their nutdom decided to embrace.

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to it knowingly, it was as cold as it was hot, as rational as it was lethal. To embrace the Rage was to embrace a splendor, a glory, a denial of all restraint but not of reason. It was pure, elemental purpose, unencumbered by compassion or horror or pity, yet it was far more than mere frenzy.

What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make enough plans

The marriage of work has everything to do with the romance of the everyday.

The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest but wholeheartedness

Good work, done well for the right reasons...

The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.

The antidote to exhaustion is not rest; it's wholeheartedness.