"The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us."

-- Simon Van Booy

#Passion Quotes

“You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.”
“Maybe thatâ€™s why Iâ€™ve made it as far as I have â€“ 2,521 miles. If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion Iâ€™d still be in Nova Scotia. Or else Iâ€™d never have started. Iâ€™ve seen people in so much pain. The little bit of pain Iâ€™m going through is nothing. They canâ€™t shut it off, and I canâ€™t shut down every time I feel a little sore.”
“I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.”

Source : "Ebbers found guilty over $11bn fraud at WorldCom" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2005.
“I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.”
“To live without risk is to risk not living.”
“Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.”
“One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.”

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