Passion Quotes - Page 183

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world. The secret of passion truly is purpose.

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.

Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

Passion pushes you to learn more, create more and to create better. Best of all, it's contagious.

Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

The mission of the playwright ... is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for 'The Passion of the Christ'? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

You must have a passion to coach.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.