Passion Quotes

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
Mikhail Bakunin

Hope, Idea, Despair

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Love, Play, Act

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.
Paul Theroux

Love, Understand, Else

But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Time, Off, Racing

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown

Moral, Television, Propaganda

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly

Wisdom, Ignorance, Darkness

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
Boris Johnson

Love, Him, Said

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
James A. Garfield

Justice, Goodwill, Outlast

Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.
Alyssa Milano

Money, Beautiful, Help

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.
Ernie Banks

Life, Work, Loved

To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.
Jessica Lange

Work, Emotional, Commitment

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.
Jonathan Sacks

Education, Freedom, Children

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas William Jerrold

Rain, Duck, Shower

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.
Miuccia Prada

Life, May, Sense

I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.
Scott Stapp

God, Decisions, Wanted

Modeling was never a passion of mine.
Charlize Theron

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Love, Feeling, Person

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Love, Time, Understand

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
George Mason

Mind, Him, Free

We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.
Frank Luntz

Sound, Decide, Based

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Isabelle Adjani

Violence, Pleasure, Soft

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?
James Wolcott

Trying, Around, Strangers

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior.
James Wolcott

Become, Republican, Party

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
Mikhail Bakunin

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.
James Marsters

Time, Rock, Country

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.
Jessica Simpson

Music, Career, Rest

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.
Nicolas Cage

Family, Long, Line

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Today, Sun, Speak

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
Eddie Van Halen

Life, Music, Help

My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.
Vanessa Hudgens

Love, Movies, Happy

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