Heart Quotes

"The Internet's kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged"

"Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes"

Laura Dern, Actress

"Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart"

Anne Hutchinson, Clergyman

"Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood"

William Allen White, Editor

"You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part"

David Bowie, Musician

"I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do"

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

"You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart"

George Michael, Musician

"A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey"

Matthew Prior, Poet

"It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!"

Patsy Cline, Musician

"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, Businessman

"I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush"

Howard Dean, Politician

"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart"

Judy Collins, Musician

"To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart desires"

Joy Page, Actress

"The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected"

C. S. Forester, Novelist

"If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack"

Edward Norton, Actor

"Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text"

Dean Koontz, Author

"Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind"

Charles de Lint, Writer

"The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart"

Alfred de Vigny, Poet

"The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart"

Annie Dillard, Author

"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"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, Poet

"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

"And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will"

Josiah Royce, Philosopher

"When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart"

Horace Mann, Educator

"That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do"

Kim Cattrall, Actress

"In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

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