Quotes about Passion
Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.
— Og Mandino
I knew I must do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.
— Alice Hoffman
Desire had a way of making a person oddly courageous.
— Alice Hoffman
Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her hands, so engrossed she would sometimes trip while navigating familiar streets.
— Alice Hoffman
What she feels for him is so deep, she aches. She supposes this is what people refer to when they say the pangs of love, as if your innermost joy cannot help but cause you anguish as well.
— Alice Hoffman
Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader...
— Alice Hoffman
and want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense. She
— Alice Hoffman
She was inexperienced enough to assume what they had was love because she wanted him, and want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense.
— Alice Hoffman
That's all someone in the grip of obsession needs: the single possibility that desire might be real, a tiny shred of evidence to show you're not all alone in the dark.
— Alice Hoffman
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
— Alice Walker
She say, Nothing but death can keep me from it. She never write.
— Alice Walker
My heart must be young and fresh though, it feel like it blooming blood.
— Alice Walker