Heart Quotes

"I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart"

"Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on"

Bernard De Voto, Writer

"The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om"

Eden Ahbez, Musician

"I've always been a slave to my heart"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill"

Bryan White, Musician

"It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on"

Mireille Mathieu, Musician

"Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy"

Rick Allen, Musician

"People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship"

Peter Bichsel, Writer

"Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line"

Pat Williams, Athlete

"From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart"

Sammy Hagar, Musician

"Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart"

Bruce Willis, Actor

"Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting"

Josef Albers, Artist

"Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand"

Jason Zebehazy, Businessman

"We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary"

Uta Hagen, Actress

"I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die"

Karl Shapiro, Poet

"I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms"

William Gibson, Writer

"If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either"

Golda Meir, Leader

"A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world"

Jack Kerouac, Novelist

"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind"

Lionel Hampton, Musician

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist"

Louis Nizer, Lawyer

"Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart"

Mike Singletary, Athlete

"I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing"

John Perkins, Economist

"And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood"

William Tyndale, Clergyman

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