Top 100 Passionately Quotes
#1. Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionately that this is an interesting human adventure. This is one of the things we're doing that is really fundamentally important, as we leave our home planet, but also exciting.
Chris Hadfield
#3. Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#4. When you are so full that there is no emptiness in you, that you have started feeling the significance of the ordinary, day-to-day existence, when moment to moment you live totally, intensely, passionately, then God is available.
Rajneesh
#5. I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
Ken Robinson
#6. If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.
Ruth Bernhard
#7. I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.
Anne Holm
#8. I blame my work for a lot of things. I thank my work for a lot of things, too, but the trouble with being so passionately involved in work is that it becomes like a lover, like your partner, because it nourishes you.
Joel Edgerton
#9. Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#10. Loving passionately, loving fiercely, loving and taking both good and bad, and at times, the damn near impossible, provides sweet chaos, fueling the pitter patter of the heart...
Virginia Alison
#11. In my experience, economists rarely believe passionately in, or care passionately for, the free market. They are generally more concerned to reveal the market's imperfections, to further their own professional importance.
Terence Kealey
#12. It's on the field, it's on the pane, it's in the sky - beauty; and I can't get at it; I can't have it - I, she seemed to add, with that little clutch of the hand which was so characteristic, who adore it so passionately, would give the whole world to possess it!
Virginia Woolf
#13. (One character on another
Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?
Dorothy L. Sayers
#14. No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
Albert Camus
#15. Free healthcare and free and equal education and peace are about the only things I passionately believe in, and I think if you don't believe in those but you go to church on Sunday then that's hypocris.
Robert Montgomery
#16. There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.
Charlie Kaufman
#17. If you find that you start a number of stories or pieces that you don't ever bother finishing, that you lose interest or faith in them along the way, it may be that there is nothing at their center about which you care passionately.
Anne Lamott
#18. Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!
Marie Corelli
#19. Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it before her and, even if they had, they could not embrace it as passionately as she.
Thomm Quackenbush
#20. If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.
George Lois
#21. I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
Alexander Hamilton
#22. I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#23. We walked for a long time. We kissed, we embraced on the Lungarno, I asked him, half serious, half joking, if he wanted to sneak into my room. He shook his head, he went back to kissing me passionately. There were entire libraries separating him and Antonio, but they were similar.
Elena Ferrante
#24. With a hoarse moan, he swept her against him, kissing her wildly, passionately, his mouth promising and teasing, as if her kiss had broken the dam that had held back his passion.
Karen Hawkins
#25. I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
Antony Beevor
#26. To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.
Aleister Crowley
#27. Likewise, everyone at the Circle there had been chosen, and thus the gene pool was extraordinary, the brainpower phenomenal. It was a place where everyone endeavored, constantly and passionately, to improve themselves, each other, share their knowledge, disseminate it to the world.
Dave Eggers
#28. The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Robert Dold
#29. By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent -
Nikos Kazantzakis
#30. I'm not a particularly ideological person. There's things, some values I feel passionately about.
Barack Obama
#31. I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.
Kim Basinger
#32. I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
Erica Jong
#33. You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.
Yolanda Adams
#34. Frida. So after all, it is not for nothing that I was born a poet. For now she is going forth into the great wide world, that I once yearned so passionately to see. Little Frida sets out in a splendid covered sledge with silver bells on the harness -
Henrik Ibsen
#35. I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can.
Warren Spector
#36. But in those eyes and in the lines of her exquisite lips there was something with which his brother might well be passionately in love, but which perhaps could not be loved for long.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#37. There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.
Rumi
#38. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt,
but it is the only way to live life completely.
Leo Buscaglia
#39. Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone ...
Margaret Halsey
#40. Sometimes while you are so passionately busy building, there will be others as busy destroying. Do not stop. One day you will notice how high above you get, and how down below they end up
Sameh Elsayed
#41. Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.
Paul Watson
#43. The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
Dan Simmons
#44. The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
Jodie Foster
#45. Don't let bad thoughts deceive you into thinking that you have to feel bad. Be aware and conscious of it and choose to think good thoughts whenever you are bombarded with the bad.
Remember to live your life passionately!
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#46. There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made ... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan'.
Steven Spielberg
#47. Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.
Philip Yancey
#48. She could love him, if she let it happen. Deeply, passionately, ruinously.
Lisa Kleypas
#49. Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.
George Woodcock
#50. There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.
Warren Beatty
#51. But I'm not patient!" cried Meg passionately. "I've never been patient!
Madeleine L'Engle
#52. A beautiful life is about spending your time passionately, being happy with who you are inside, and not worrying about everyone's petty judgments. If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for everyone's approval. You don't need anyone's approval to be happy or to follow your heart.
Shivesh Thakur
#53. I would like to know the given name of the woman who can kiss me so passionately she makes me want to climb to the roof tops and roar.
Amy Jarecki
#54. What?"
"That's sweet."
I am sweet. My heart flip-flops and I bite my lip a little bit. Sweet as in a lollipop, or sweet as in a girl you wold like to kiss passionately in the stacks? That's the question.
Carrie Jones
#55. We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.
Dorothy Day
#56. It's only when we give to ourselves as passionately as we give of ourselves that we create the life we want and deserve.
Suze Orman
#57. I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
Mary Wesley
#58. I thank those lusts for being so ridiculous, for they taught us that it was possible for a human being to believe anything, and to behave passionately in keeping with that belief - any belief.
Kurt Vonnegut
#59. Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.
Mary Lambert
#60. Talk passionately and act compassionately. The only thing you can do in your life to win the world is to be a kind speaker and a kind listener. That's what makes the humankind. Kind listening and kind speaking. Passionately talk and compassionately act.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#61. How much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can't love you. As a species we're pathetic that way: imperfectly monogamous.
Margaret Atwood
#62. There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.
Marilyn Yalom
#63. You can't feel crazily grateful to be alive your whole life any more than you can stay passionately in love forever - or grieve forever, for that matter. Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busywork of living.
Tim Kreider
#64. I am passionately invested in the survival of Israel and everything Israel represents. But I am extremely critical of much of its policy. I believe that the occupation must end. And if it doesn't, it will end Israel. I'm not in favor of settlements.
Simon Schama
#65. I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.
Brenda Ueland
#66. I love you,' Marius whispered suddenly, passionately as a mortal man might. 'I have always loved you. I wish that I could believe in anything other than love at this moment; but I can't.
Anne Rice
#67. I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.
Alexander Theroux
#68. All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
Ludwig Von Mises
#69. They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented lives.
William Golding
#70. I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power.
Alex Gibney
#71. Just like the sea, she was turbulent and wild, angry and loving. She felt every sensation, but it was only here, with water around her, that she dared let herself feel so strongly, so passionately.
Christine Feehan
#72. I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.
Peter Sculthorpe
#73. To write well, to write passionately, to be less inhibited, to be warmer, to be more self-critical, to recognize the power of as well as the force of lust, to write, to love.
John Cheever
#74. Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
Nathaniel Branden
#75. Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things.
Henry H. Bauer
#76. I've had more fan mail from 'Doctor Who' than anything. People love the show so passionately.
Miranda Raison
#77. We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute best of our ability - and this, this is more than enough.
Sera Break
#78. It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
John Eldredge
#79. Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies, Germany and Japan.
Anthony Lewis
#80. There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
George William Russell
#81. The greatest evidence of authentic good will is the way we treat people with whom we passionately disagree.
Jonathan Morris
#82. I think 'retirement' goes hand in hand with people who make a living by having a 'job.' I don't think we-the .00001 percent of the population who are so fortunate to love passionately what we do-consider it a 'job.
Dustin Hoffman
#83. If people are speaking about something passionately and if they have a level of intelligence about it and if they're sufficiently informed, it's going to be like a magnet to people.
Rush Limbaugh
#84. People in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.
Nora Ephron
#85. I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.
Michelle D. Kwasney
#86. But I was not so much interested in facts themselves as in the importance they had for my imagination. I was passionately interested in railways, and in the relative speed of the fastest express trains; but I did not understand the principle of the steam engine and had no wish to learn.
L.P. Hartley
#87. One simple thought can change the world; think passionately!
Debasish Mridha
#88. I feel really passionately about safe, comfortable roads, crosswalks, and sidewalks. Everyone of all economic backgrounds should be able to get to school or the grocery store safely and efficiently so they can live better lives.
Ben Sollee
#89. A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.
Rajneesh
#90. Damn, I love you, but this is crazy,
I have to fight you almost daily,
We break up so fast,
And we, we make up so passionately,
Why can't we just trust each?
You can't hate me and be my lover,
Passion ends, and pains begins, I come back ...
John Legend
#91. Treat every moment of your life with Divine respect. Love passionately your God-given miraculous life.
Robert Muller
#92. You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself
if that's what it comes to.
Anne Perry
#93. Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.
Francis Spufford
#94. Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
Simone De Beauvoir
#95. I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.
Olivia Newton-John
#96. I have the privilege to make ethical choices through my food each day. It's beyond nourishment to me. Each meal represents a lifestyle I passionately believe in.
Margaret Chapman
#97. Life is about the decisions we make to live passionately or passively.
Where's your passion?
Laura Castoro
#98. Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.
Lee Konitz
#99. Passion and love for a brand and its consumers sustain us. For how can we ever devote our continued highest energy to something if we don't believe in it passionately.
John E. Pepper Jr.
#100. It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others.
Dillon Burroughs
