Top 100 Quotes About A Passion
#1. From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.
Albert Camus
#2. Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.
Titania Hardie
#3. Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.
Francis Collins
#4. The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.
Eban Goodstein
#5. It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.
Paul Watson
#6. Why should I seek for love or study it?
It is of God and passes human wit;
I study hatred with great diligence,
For that's a passion in my own control,
A sort of besom that can clear the soul
Of everything that is not mind or sense.
William Butler Yeats
#7. He would be cruel indeed, to put a passion in her, and then to punish her for feeling it.
Sarah Waters
#8. Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.
Katori Hall
#9. Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's that German thread of the metaphysic - they were looking for the beyond in dreams.
Dumitru Tepeneag
#10. I've always had a passion for life and I think that translated into a bit of overindulgence. What can I say? I've never met a cupcake I didn't like.
Jasinda Wilder
#11. Win with your heart, not your head - win on emotion, not in logic; have a passion about what you do; nobody wants a boss, everybody wants a coach.
Arthur L. Williams Jr.
#12. I have a passion for ballad ... They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,
in the genial Summertime.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#13. When we first got together, one of the things me and Judy had in common was a passion for the correct use of the apostrophe
Richard Madeley
#14. There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness in man which only holiness can ventilate.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#15. Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#16. Then I knew: this wasn't just a passion I felt for my model. My feelings about him had nothing to do with how his looks inspired me; he was far more than a muse. With every stroke of pencil and crayon, I had drawn Will into my heart.
I was in love with him.
Sharon Biggs Waller
#17. I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.
Bindi Irwin
#18. The fashion thing is something I do, and yes, it is definitely also becoming a part of myself and my personality. It also doesn't really feel like a job, either: it's a dream or a passion or something.
Raf Simons
#19. It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a passion! If you haven't got it you fight like a fish out of water fighting for air!
Edward Bond
#20. To be conscious that the end of a dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a passion and its end.
Thomas Hardy
#21. Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.
Andrew Harvey
#22. Books are full of words and they are the most influential tools in the world. These seemingly innocent things strung together by letters have the power to ignite ideas, to spark a dying motivation, to fuel a passion.
Sarah Noffke
#23. I like to take chances on people, and whenever possible, promote from within - it sends a great message to everyone in the company when someone demonstrates a passion for the job and leadership skills at every step along the way and is rewarded with a leadership role.
Richard Branson
#25. Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
Ruth Park
#26. How awful to have a passion so intense it dictates your every breath and yet to lack the moral backbone to pursue it. The
James Rhodes
#27. For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think.
Tom Bodett
#28. When we realize and embrace the Lord's will for us, we will love to do it. We won't want to do anything else. It's a passion.
Franklin Graham
#29. You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.
Truman Capote
#30. I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.
David Massengill
#31. The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.
Paul Theroux
#32. The world waits to see in those who claim to follow Jesus a passion for the only One who matters.
Robbie Symons
#33. I've got a passion for what I'm doing and I feel privileged all the time.
Nitin Sawhney
#34. Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.
Marcel Achard
#35. I wake up in the morning and I still have a passion for what I do, and I'll be doing it when I'm 105, I'll be scribbling away. If it was 100 years ago I'd be sitting by the campfire, saying, "Have I got a story to tell you."
Jackie Collins
#36. I have a passion to make a difference in the world. And that difference can be just making the fans at my show leave with a smile on their faces and feeling uplifted.
Michael Franti
#37. If something rad is going on and it has to do with film, I want to be there. If it's getting coffee, I don't care. It's a passion of mine.
Rie Rasmussen
#38. The best cover letters I've read are from people who have a passion for my company, and can make that passion come to life on a page. The letters that make me say, 'Yes! This person really gets it.' Because, at the end of the day, I want to hire people who already get it. Most hiring managers do.
Kathryn Minshew
#39. Learning's purest form," Jones replied, "is realized by the individual who continues a quest beyond the classroom, fueled by a passion to discern wisdom. Wisdom - genuine truth - holds the key to refining one's thinking.
Andy Andrews
#40. No, what they want is to experience a passion so huge, overwhelming, powerful and irresistible that it obliterates any guilt or tension or culpability they might feel about betraying their perceived responsibilities.
David Foster Wallace
#41. Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions.
Ellen Key
#42. Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.
Laura Prepon
#43. I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J.J. Abrams
#44. The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
George Bernard Shaw
#45. It just clicked that it was the next step for me; choreographing didn't interest me, and opening a studio wasn't a passion for me. I didn't know if I'd be very good at acting, but then my first scene in acting class ... I just loved it.
Bree Turner
#46. Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned for the spiritual health of people but open to your own rebukes from your mighty Word.
Max Anders
#47. The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.
Samuel Johnson
#48. I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
Mandy Moore
#49. Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as a small child. Occasionally I made another career; but now I have again the possibility of maintaining the passion of my early youth days.
Carmen Kass
#50. Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.
Jean De La Bruyere
#51. He grins to himself as he thinks of his little cabal, this great band of warriors consisting of an old woman, a passion-struck fool, and a man with a feeble mind. At least they've all got the loyalty part right.
T.J. Klune
#52. You don't have to know what you want to be. That comes later. But I want you to know what you want to be. That comes later. But I want you to want more than just having a job and muddling through life. I want you to find a passion you believe in strongly enough to risk humiliation and rejection.
Kate Klise
#53. Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character
Edward Bates
#54. That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine.
Samuel Beckett
#55. Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime.
Simen Agdestein
#56. Growing up, I played about every sport imaginable except soccer and hockey. I've always had a passion for basketball. I remember actually playing basketball when I was two or three years old. The time I knew that I could really take my game to the next level.
Dwight Howard
#57. Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.
Gerry Spence
#58. My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.
Ofra Haza
#60. I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.
Dan Marino
#61. I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
Umberto Eco
#62. As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.
James Vila Blake
#63. Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.
Ernie Banks
#64. Unleashing a passion can transform a life ...
Susan Cain
#65. Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion.
Dick Vitale
#66. The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.
Lesley Visser
#68. I cling to the beauty and strength of nature and all wild creatures with a passion born of certainty that only through them can i retain my perspective about life and my own part in it.
Virginia McKenna
#69. I do a lot of running, and I do it every day. I run on a track, I run hills and I work the stair-stepper extremely hard. I do some type of cardio every day. In addition, I have a passion for golf, and that helps me stay fit, too.
Jerry Rice
#70. I have such a passion because I adore animals so much.
Lea Michele
#72. He had always disliked what he could easily have; he had a passion for the untouched.
Rumer Godden
#74. A passion-driven exultant man sings out
Sentences that he has never thought ...
William Butler Yeats
#75. Never develop a passion you can't afford. It'll eat your heart away like a bookworm.
Cornelia Funke
#76. But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#77. I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.
Tony Bennett
#78. My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.
Carson Daly
#80. I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit.
Alan King
#81. I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.
Leo Howard
#82. Research is a passion with me; it drives me; it is my relentless master.
Margaret Morse Nice
#83. Never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.
Walter Isaacson
#84. After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#85. There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive.
Rhona Mitra
#86. The first and most essential quality of a presidential candidate, as Averell Harriman once pointed out, is that he should lust for the job - he should want it more than all things, with a passion surpassing all emotion and probably even all principle.
Theodore H. White
#87. Writing is not a competition, or a fear. Writing is an art, a passion, a love.
Kirsty-Anne Still
#88. Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.
Soren Kierkegaard
#89. A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.
Edwin Forrest
#90. For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
Wilfrid Laurier
#91. Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion.
Marcel Breuer
#92. When we come to a place where we trust that God's timing is perfect, we can be content no matter where we are because we know that God will not leave us there forever. Maintaining a passion for the present means embracing the light we have where we are at this time and trusting that it is enough.
Stormie O'martian
#93. It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.
Pierre Charron
#94. I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.
Kim Harrison
#95. Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Paul Eldridge
#96. The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.
Timothy Keller
#97. The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from inability to find the right words, he had developed almost a passion for silence.
Francois Mauriac
#99. The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking.
Marsilio Ficino
#100. There are over 170,000 pages of regulations in Washington, D.C. I want to streamline the rules in the federal government to basically allow businesses to grow without fear of burdensome federal regulations. That's a passion to me, regulatory reform.
Jason T. Smith
