The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises. – Saint Francis de Sales
Early in my career, having many visible tattoos created obstacles and presented quite a challenge to move forward. I’ve heard comments like, ‘actors don’t have tattoos.’ The notion of typecasting was a reoccurring theme despite my passion toward creativity and personal expression. – Robert LaSardo
I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn’t say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed. – Pansy Ho
The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just ’cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It’s legendary in our products. – Ron Johnson
To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect – when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that’s not been the major passion, but it’s been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians. – Ricky Jay
I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else. – Romeo Santos
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better. – Paul Wellstone
When you lose your passion to be a WWE Superstar, there’s no point in going back. It’s a lot of work and sacrifice. – Robert Maillet
I feel strongly about HIV/AIDS and children because I’m a famous singer, a public figure, and I’m a female and a mother. I have the responsibility and the passion to help out and do whatever I can. – Peng Liyuan
I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do. – Richie Sambora
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man’s wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. – Saint Augustine
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. – Robert Anderson
I didn’t want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling – more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it. – Omar Sharif
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we – architects – can effect the quality of life of the people. – Richard Rogers
I’ve always had a passion for acting, without really realising that that’s what I should be doing. – Rhys Darby
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers. – Robin S. Sharma
It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric. – Richard Rodgers
I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it’s important not to belittle the child audience. – Rhys Ifans
We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests. – Sheryl Sandberg
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil. – Roger Rosenblatt
I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn’t living according to my values, and I didn’t have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for. – Robin S. Sharma