Passion Quotes

I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

~ Annie Besant

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

Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.

~ Thia Megia

Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

~ Kevin Spacey

Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.

~ Mariella Frostrup

Motorcycle riding has been a passion of mine since my 20th birthday, and as a proud member of the American Motorcyclist Association and the Harley Owners Group, I can attest that responsible riding has many unique recreational benefits for millions of Americans.

~ Tim Walberg

I'm definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.

~ Melissa Benoist

I hate horror movies, with a passion.

~ Katee Sackhoff

You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion drives it. And you'll get the money. Money's the easiest thing. But the hardest thing is finding a way for people to see your movie.

~ Allison Anders

My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other - and that goes across all media, books, TV, movies, personal essays; everything.

~ Taylor Jenkins Reid

The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.

~ John Woo

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

~ Richard M. Nixon

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

~ Malcolm Turnbull

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.

~ James Mcgreevey

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

~ C. S. Lewis

Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it's still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped at the chance to do my own collection and am very hands-on. Everything I design, I wear and I love.

~ Twiggy

After doing some research with my agent, we found out Klipsch was an official Colts partner, and they were based in Indianapolis, which only added to my esteem for the company. I also have a passion for design and technology that developed while I was at Stanford and appreciate the quality of Klipsch's speakers and headphones.

~ Andrew Luck

Real entrepreneurs have what I call the three Ps (and, trust me, none of them stands for 'permission'). Real entrepreneurs have a 'passion' for what they're doing, a 'problem' that needs to be solved, and a 'purpose' that drives them forward.

~ Michael Dell

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

~ Alanis Morissette

Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.

~ Mother Angelica

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

~ Arthur Golden

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

~ George Eliot

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

~ Paul Eldridge

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

~ Andrew Weil

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

~ Audrey Hepburn

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

~ Christina Aguilera

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

~ Michelle Yeoh

It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for social issues and I think that's what it's for. I do a few things - I mess around with music a lot because that's a passion of mine. If something strikes me and I want to share it, I do.

~ Tom Colicchio

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

~ Jerry Seinfeld

Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football.

~ Andrea Della Valle

Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.

~ Henry Samueli

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

~ Ai Weiwei

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

~ William Godwin

I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

~ Nathan Fillion

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

~ Günter Grass

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

~ Rita Mae Brown