In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.
~By Mary Stuart Masterson ~
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.
~By Charles Foster Bass ~
Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
~By Valentino Rossi ~
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
~By Gary Oldman ~
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.
~By Mary Wortley ~
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
~By Omar Sharif ~
It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.
~By Penny Marshall ~
I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!
~By Christine Lahti ~
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
~By Mario Andretti ~
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.
~By Joseph Butler ~
The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.
~By Willem Dafoe ~
I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.
~By Michael Crawford ~
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
~By Roland Barthes ~
When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever.
~By Jody Watley ~
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
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.
~By Terri Windling ~
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
~By Jackie Collins ~
I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.
~By Steve Blake ~
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
~By Max Weber ~
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
~By Bette Davis ~
The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.
~By Steven Cojocaru ~
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.
~By Jennifer Ellison ~
I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
~By Jerome Lawrence ~
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.
~By Marie Corelli ~
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
~By Horace ~
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
~By Arthur Keith ~
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.
~By William Falconer ~
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
~By William Blake ~
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
~By Stevie Wonder ~
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
~By Karl Kraus ~
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
~By Rene Cassin ~
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
~By George Eliot ~
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
~By William Samuel Johnson ~
She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
~By Michael Foot ~
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
~By Joseph De Maistre ~
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
~By Andre Gide ~
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.
~By Steve Case ~
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
~By Paul D. Boyer ~
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
~By Sallust ~
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
~By Norman Cousins ~
No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
~By Star Jones ~
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.
~By Ayumi Hamasaki ~
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
~By George Santayana ~
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
~By John Rawls ~
Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.
~By Kim Weston ~
When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
~By Sue Grafton ~
Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.
~By Conrad Burns ~
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
~By Larry Elder ~
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
~By George Stephanopoulos ~
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
~By Jean-Luc Godard ~
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
~By Ruth Park ~
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
~By Paul Theroux ~
Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
~By Edmund Burke ~
I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.
~By Scott Stapp ~
The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
~By Jack Henry Abbott ~
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
The passion for money is never fickle.
~By Mason Cooley ~
There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.
~By Michael J. Tucker ~
Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
~By Myriam Miedzian ~
Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
~By David Wilkerson ~
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.
~By Charles Inglis ~
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift.
~By Justin Guarini ~
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
~By William McFee ~
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
~By Joseph Butler ~
And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
~By Martin Scorsese ~
But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.
~By Steve Spurrier ~
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
~By Mason Cooley ~
There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
~By Daniel Craig ~
The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.
~By Cat Stevens ~
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
~By Edmund Burke ~
I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
~By Louise J. Kaplan ~
Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.
~By Martin Short ~
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
~By David Hume ~
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
~By Denis Diderot ~
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