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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Quote by Franz Kafka

I'm a storyteller firstly but the stories that engage me passionately are the ones that make me care about something.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about history

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

Quote by Blaise Pascal about opinion, rest, affair, nothing, being, man

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Quote by Walter Pater about pasion, activity, sadness, common sense, sense, love, life

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Quote by Walter Pater about gifts, attitude, sleep, sun, moment, day

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...

Quote by Walter Pater about beauty, literary critic, common sense, sense, wisdom, art, magic, love

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

Quote by Luciano Pavarotti about music, life

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Quote by Sonny Perdue about philosophy, judgment, leadership, ability, knowledge, good, good luck, people

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli about ambition, human imperfections

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about pasion, art, magic

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about opinion, character, knowledge

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about pasion, blind, light, people

The most injust people are those who are speaking with passion.

Quote by Barbu Stefanescu Delavrancea about injustice, people

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Quote by Antoine de Rivarol about vice, habits

Follow your passion.

Quote by Joel Siegel about pasion

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

Quote by Robert Southey about poetry, proudness, vanity, sin, death, love, life

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Quote by Stephen Robert Irwin about education, enthusiasm, faith, being

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

Quote by Michael Kirk Douglas about film, affair, contentment

I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

Quote by Emile Zola about dream, dark, humanity, name, happiness, soul

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

Quote by Gunter Grass about water, magic, art, end, fight