Passion Vs Practicality Quotes & Sayings

Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness. — Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

This country was founded by religious nuts with guns. — P. J. O'Rourke

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains. — Hafez

Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life. — Glynis Nunn

The scenery doesn't necessarily improve in proportion to how far you travel or how much you spend. — Ron Lizzi

It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place - they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, — Veronica Roth

I gave up on being Nice. I started putting more value on other qualities instead: passion, bravery, intelligence, practicality, humor, patience, fairness, sensitivity. Those — Anna Kendrick

Get crazy in prayer. Ask for the seemingly impossible; then watch it happen. Do not make judgments on what you are worthy of. Save the practicality for other aspects of your life. — Pooja Ruprell

Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail. — Lao-Tzu

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery. — Paul Strand

The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit, we suddenly discover that we were never truly alone. — Hal Zina Bennett

As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. — James Madison

The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul. — Cass Gilbert

If there's no ethically correct solution, act irrationally. — Sergei Lukyanenko

All In All Is All We Are — Kurt Cobain

Love and passion begat marriage in my world. Yet in my grandparents' world, marriage began with practicality. My grandfather told me proudly of that day he first met my grandmother. He interviewed her, posing little riddles to test her common sense. "Supposing you have to take the children to school and you're late and it's supposed to rain," he said. "Would you take a taxi or a bus?" My grandmother said, "Well, first I'd take an umbrella." Ice cream in Central Park, this was not. — Padma Lakshmi

I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing! — Paul Thomas Anderson

Anyhow, even though I might go out on a date with a boy, emotionally I just wouldn't be able to concentrate. I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. I'd be thinking about one unrelated thing after another. I don't know, I guess finally I want to be alone a little while longer. And I want to let my thoughts wander freely. In that sense, I guess, I'm probably still on the road to recovery. — Haruki Murakami