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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.