#passion

It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#get #much #our #ourselves #passion

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#found #less #life #living #passion

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#binds #common #compassion #future #hope

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#actions #bad #because #built #does

A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#come #emotion #go #groove #machine

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do. ↗

— Teena Marie

#enough #god #i #i do #imagination

I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting. ↗

— Berenice Marlohe

#acting #art #chance #choice #drawing

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

— Michael Musto

#new #new york #passion #special #vitality

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#known #literature #man #passions #sweetest

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german