Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

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• Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Friends
  • Difficult
  • Him

• Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Want
  • Know
  • Passion

• William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Feel
  • Child
  • Difficult

• Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Heart
  • She
  • Dream

• In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

  

  Halsey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Passion

• Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Difficult
  • Nobody
  • Silver

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Giving

• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Small

• I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Difficult
  • Most

• Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Passion
  • Books
  • Physical

• It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Language
  • Difficult

• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Long
  • You
  • Difficult

• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Beautiful
  • Passion
  • Sense

• Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Family

• Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Passion
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Know
  • Passion
  • Woman

• I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas' shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • America
  • Passion
  • Best

• I believe there is no one Principle, which predominates in human Nature so much in every Stage of Life, from the Cradle to the Grave, in Males and females, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, high and low, as this Passion for Superiority.

  

  John Adams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • High

• I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end.

  

  Dennis Franz
  • Time
  • Work

• A great road trip. To come back in Cleveland to win that series and get these two ... no excuses, but it's been a long road trip for just five games. It's huge going 4-1. Cleveland has a great team and Tampa Bay is playing better. But we pitched well and scored some runs. We're starting to jell together.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Team
  • Games
  • Excuses

• It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

  

  Catullus
  • Passion
  • Difficult