Quotes with passion-stains

Quotes 121 till 140 of 248.

  • Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
    - +
     0
  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
    - +
     0
  • Bishop Hall Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
    - +
     0
  • Blaise Pascal Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Cosby Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
    - +
     0
  • William Shakespeare Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
     0
  • Alexander Pope On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
    - +
     0
  • Ban Ki-moon On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
    - +
     0
  • Max Weber One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
    Max Weber
    German economist, historian and sociologist (1864 - 1920)
    - +
     0
  • Cam Newton One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
    - +
     0
  • Eric Hoffer One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • E. M. Forster Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Henry James Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
    - +
     0
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • Barnett Newman Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • John Wesley Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Blank Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Golden Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
    - +
     0
  • Christian Nevell Bovee Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
    - +
     0
  • John Wooden Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
    - +
     0
All passion-stains famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 7)