Heart famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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I was like, wait a minute. When I hear my sisters' names, I want to have a joyful feeling in my heart about it.
-- Alfre Woodard -
When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.
-- Alfre Woodard -
Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
-- Alfred Adler -
To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.
-- Alfred Adler -
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seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
-- Alfred Adler -
The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, you will always see the dear face and feel the warm heart union of your eternal love.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
No better words than "thank you" have yet been discovered to express the sincere gratitude of one's heart; when the two words are sincerely spoken.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
-- Alfred Austin -
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Share the botanical bliss of gardeners through the ages, who have cultivated philosophies to apply to their own - and our own - lives: Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
-- Alfred Austin -
Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!
-- Alfred Austin -
You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you...
-- Alfred Bester -
The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling.
-- Alfred Bunn -
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The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.
-- Alfred Bunn -
The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
-- Alfred de Musset -
The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
-- Alfred de Musset -
If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart
-- Alfred de Musset -
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If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers. The sap of your life will dissipate into the formation of a useless bark; all your actions will be as colorless as the leaves of the willow; you will have no tears to water you, but those from your own eyes, to nourish you, no heart but your own.
-- Alfred de Musset -
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
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Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man. These embrace the whole of life. But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
-- Alfred Nobel -
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Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
-- Alfred Nobel -
Enough of dreams! No longer mock The burdened hearts of men! Not on the cloud, but on the rock Build thou thy faith again; O range no more the realms of air, Stoop to the glen-bound streams; Thy hope was all too like despair: Enough, enough of dreams.
-- Alfred Noyes -
Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose!
-- Alfred Noyes -
We have come by curious ways To the Light that holds the days; We have sought in haunts of fear For that all-enfolding sphere: And lo! it was not far, but near. We have found, O foolish-fond, The shore that has no shore beyond. Deep in every heart it lies With its untranscended skies; For what heaven should bend above Hearts that own the heaven of love?
-- Alfred Noyes -
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Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in many, O broken and blind, One as the waves are at one with the sea! Ay! when life seems scattered apart, Darkens, ends as a tale that is told, One, we are one, O heart of my heart, One, still one, while the world grows old.
-- Alfred Noyes -
I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.
-- Alfred Schnittke -
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
-- Algernon Blackwood -
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.
-- Algernon Blackwood -
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To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid.
-- Algernon Blackwood -
No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
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O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless as my life's first day: Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet..
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
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I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in my head. The top part [of my artwork] is you letting go and floating. You become part of the air and you've tapped into the heartbeat of the universe. I guess that's what people do when they meditate.
-- Ali Banisadr -
Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
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The word of God is the medicine of the heart.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like a predatory beast which seeks to be satiated by devouring them, for the people fall into two categories: they are either your brethren in faith or your kindred in creation ... Do not ever say, 'I have been given authority' or 'My command should be obeyed.' Because it corrupts the heart, consumes one's faith, and invites calamities.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
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The great powers have dominated the destiny of the Islamic countries for years and... installed the Zionist cancerous tumor in the heart of the Islamic world... Many of the problems facing the Muslim world are due to the existence of the Zionist regime.
-- Ali Khamenei -
The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.
-- Ali Smith -
Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One and will do all I can to prepare men's minds and hearts for that event. I have no other life intention.
-- Alice Bailey -
With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.
-- Alice Cary -
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Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
-- Alice Childress -
The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.
-- Alice Coltrane -
Seeing you lights up my day, to hear your voice makes me smile all cheesy, to see you smile makes my heart all warm and fuzzy, when you say I love you makes my body weak.
-- Alice Gardner -
Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
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Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry.
-- Alice Meynell -
The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.
-- Alice Meynell -
The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.
-- Alice Meynell -
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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
-- Alice Miller -
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.
-- Alice Sebold -
I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.
-- Alice Walker -
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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...
-- Alice Walker -
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
-- Alice Walker -
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
-- Alice Walker -
My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
-- Alice Walker -
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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
-- Alice Walker -
I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.
-- Alice Walker -
I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with... or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.
-- Alicia Witt -
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Never be ashamed of your love," he said gently. "The only thing to be ashamed of is denying your love. That is what makes the shadow grow within your heart; that is the darkening of the Light. And we all have many loves.
-- Alison Croggon -
There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.
-- Alison Croggon -
It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.
-- Alison Croggon -
Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I say the fairest sight on this dark earth is the face of the one you love. Nor is it hard to understand: love has humbled the hearts of the proudest queens. And I would rather see you now stepping over my threshold than any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship.
-- Alison Croggon -
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You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.
-- Alison Croggon -
You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.
-- Alison Goldfrapp -
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.
-- Alison Krauss -
Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.
-- Alison McGhee -
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Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.
-- Alison Sweeney -
At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.
-- Alistair Begg -
Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.
-- Alistair Begg -
It's our Christian duty to offer spiritual worship to God that engages our minds, stirs our hearts & flows from our lips
-- Alistair Begg -
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Gods law has been written on all of our consciences, but only in Christ is it written on our hearts.
-- Alistair Begg -
Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.
-- Alistair Begg -
And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.
-- Alistair MacLeod -
My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.
-- Alister Hardy -
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You must have the courage to face what happened today and to live with it in your heart and to use the memory of it to grow and be strong.
-- Allan Frewin Jones -
Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.
-- Allan Snyder -
I believe in my heart I'm the best player in the world. I'm just a scorer. I try to put the ball in the basket for my team. I'm just confident in my ability to play ball.
-- Allen Iverson -
If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.
-- Allen Iverson -
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Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.
-- Allen Klein -
Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No more ink, no more words, no more b.s. Just me.
-- Allison Mackie -
She pulled away and looked at him. 'I kissed you and you left.' When Kat heard the pounding, she thought it was the beating of her heart. It was too loud, she thought. Hale was going to hear it; he was going to see it; and he was going to know how much power he had to hurt her.
-- Ally Carter -