Quotes about Passion

Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different. He has no talent for monotony.

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I'm no authority on sane living. Which is all true and no hep at all, because this form of love is like the pain of childbirth: so intense it's hard to remember afterwards, or what kind of screams and grimaces it pushed you into.

As Saint Paul says, marry or burn.

Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.

He loved her so much when he made her unhappy, or else when she made him unhappy: at these moments he scarcely knew which was which.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.