All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them. – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Passion is all but soft, it’s not tender, it’s violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. – Isabelle Adjani
My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we’re grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you’re younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important. – Idina Menzel
When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good. – James McGreevey
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there’s a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. – Jim Yong Kim
We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence. – Jurgen Klopp
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. – James Joyce
Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don’t have to be doing it professionally. It’s not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don’t have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be. – Jessica Simpson
Acting – I’m good at it, but it’s not my passion. Music, I’m not as good at, but that’s my passion. I think I’m just going to go with the flow, wait until one picks up, and take the opportunities one at the time. – Israel Broussard
You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, ‘No. You shouldn’t be doing that.’ And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things. – J. Michael Straczynski
I make the majority of my money from Patron, but my passion is with Paul Mitchell: I spend 85 per cent of my time on it. – John Paul DeJoria
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it’s rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive. – Jonathan Haidt
Acting for me, is a passion, but it’s also a job, and I’ve always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There’s no shame in taking a film because you need some money. – James Spader
I was probably singing before I could talk. Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do dinner theater and live a simple life. – Bethany Joy Lenz
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. – Jean de la Bruyere
We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought. – Amit Bhatia
Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend. – Akhenaton
I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing. – Alan Ritchson
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. – Aeschylus
Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It’s extraordinary. There’s a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that’s wonderful. – Bob Hoskins
I have done quite a few things that I’m not proud of. But now I can equate it to artistry without an outlet. At school, I couldn’t help but colour outside the lines. My passion just caused my reactions to be that much more volatile. – CeeLo Green
I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box. – Andrea Bocelli