Pastoral Resources

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift.

I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

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

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.

I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.