Passionable Quotes

#1. There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

Martin Buber

#2. Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.

Gabrielle Giffords

#3. A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. I leave to various future times, but not to all, my garden of forking paths.

Jorge Luis Borges

#5. Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.

John James Audubon

#6. Simple old-fashioned values that come from a sense of community are the key to a great society. I believe we all have that sense from childhood memories, when life was simple. It's those memories that should drive us to reflect on our values.

Lindsay Fox

#7. sameness, not difference, provokes our greatest anxiety

Diana Fuss

#8. Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.

Lynn Coady

#9. If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.

Austin O'Malley

#10. What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and of feeling at one with it. The other attitude which is the one our society is based on is devastating and it is killing the earth and it is killing us too.

W.S. Merwin

#11. Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.

James Baldwin

#12. Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

John Cusack

#13. If you can pretend to ignore the fact that you've got a right hand, what else can you pretend to ignore? Can you have a negative heart, a hollow soul?

Muriel Barbery