Heart Quotes

"Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography"

"The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression"

"The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood"

Alice Meynell, Poet

"Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself"

William Dean Howells, Author

"Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart"

William Dean Howells, Author

"He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart"

Washington Irving, Writer

"Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe"

Anne Bronte, Novelist

"Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact"

Uwe Boll, Director

"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"Stick with your heart and you'll be fine"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale"

Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer

"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'"

Kanye West, Musician

"Biological age, I think because I've been taking care of myself for so long I know not just my reproductive organs but my heart, you know, are much younger than - than what I am"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"All the windows of my heart I open to the day"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise"

Robert Fitzgerald, Author

"I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart"

Kim Hunter, Actress

"Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint"

Sid Waddell, Entertainer

"I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good"

Thomas Hooker, Leader

"When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks"

Isabel Allende, Writer

"When you watch my films, you're feeling my heart"

Donnie Yen, Actor

"The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life"

Judith Light, Actress

"It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image"

Charles W. Chesnutt, Novelist

"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal"

Bishop Robert South, Theologian

"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me"

William Congreve, Poet

"When the heart is right, 'for' and 'against' are forgotten"

Zhuang Zi, Philosopher

"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart"

Phil Jackson, Coach

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies"

Mark Burnett, Businessman

"When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart"

Edwin Booth, Actor

"I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul"

Lee Atwater, Politician

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