Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.
Denzel Washington

Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Michel de Montaigne

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Aeschylus

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
Steve Irwin

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
Steve Irwin

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
Stephen Fry

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard M. Nixon

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
William Penn

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
William Penn

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Honore de Balzac

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Honore De Balzac

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Honore de Balzac

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac