“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing-room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! For now that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all… — C JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Many people functionally share this belief that work has no greater meaning than the paycheck it provides. A natural consequence of this… — David Kim Copy Share Image
“People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“She wanted to take a look at you, too. She heard you were a hunk." "Is that so?" Amused, Brian shifted. "Did… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems… — George Sand Copy Share Image
It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
“The proudest, the most independent of women, if I can but succeed in communicating my passion to her, will follow me unreasoningly,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What you want in an interview is four things: You want someone who can explain what they do very well, who can… — Larry King Copy Share Image
Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Social entrepreneurs come from all levels of society and from communities in nearly every country of the world. They all share the… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
“All success is the stringing together of single steps that become a journey and ultimately lead to a destination. Often that destination… — Charles F Glassman Copy Share Image
“You may or may not make a million dollars in life, a song may not be sung in praise of you, monuments… — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
“You're reason and your passion are the rudder.. and the sails of your soul. If either be broken, you will drift or… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“He whispered: ‘Is it this? Is this possible? I’ll put a marvel to you. That your cousin has always hoped. That from… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
The key quality all successful people share is the ability to inspire, to transfer our passion to other people and to bring… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
“I tasted danger on his lips and became an addict. A slave to adrenaline and irrational behaviour. We lived recklessly in a… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Looking down she arched her back, giving him more. His tanned complexion against her milky, slightly freckled skin was visually stark and… — J.L. Saint Copy Share Image
Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
My environmentalism reared its head around the age of ten when I inexplicably become obsessed with littering. For some reason I considered… — Laurie David Copy Share Image
“[...] passion is by no means the fuller life which it seems to be in the dreams of adolescence, but is on… — Denis De Rougemont Copy Share Image
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always… — Vance Joy Copy Share Image
I never sought out to be a fan favourite, certainly respect and admire the passion and obviously the fans are a large… — Fred VanVleet Copy Share Image
What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image