#passion

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#energy #get #mistaken #passion

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. ↗

— Walter Pater

#comes #disinterested #ecstasy #enthusiastic #forms

We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#compassionate #efficient #government #need #our

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#came #compassion #deep #exalted #high

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#ambitious #around #bossy #could #day

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. ↗

— James K. Polk

#among #congress #create #disreputable #embarrasses

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#describe #experience #i #knowledge #our

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette. ↗

— Ryan Reynolds

#bikes #guess #i #just #love

The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditable motive? How is it you don't go to a movie, watch TV, stare at a wall, play tennis with a friend, make amorous advances to the person who comes to your mind when I speak of amorous advances? Can nothing surfeit, saturate you, turn you off? Where's your shame? ↗

— John Barth

#addicts #biblioholism #passion #readers #reading

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ↗

— William Bennett

#compassionate #kind #often #own #reward