#passion

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #awards #choices #compassion

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#cabinet #grace #i #passionate #person

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#art #art world #calls #chinese #create

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen. ↗

— Theodore White

#beast #best #him #his #kitchen

Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#been #ever #football #football player #i

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland. ↗

— Terri Windling

#always #british #celtic #celtic music #college

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#energy #excites #feel #focusing #passion

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#ball #beating #characterize #describe #getting

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#brain #buried #buzzing #diving #humming

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#conviction #full #intensity #lack #passionate