Heart Quotes

"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

"Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform"

Chanakya, Politician

"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 think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual"

Kenny Loggins, 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

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

Thomas Hooker, Leader

"The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion"

Everett Dirksen, Politician

"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

"Please your eye and plague your heart"

William Cobbett, Politician

"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations"

Elizabeth II, Royalty

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

William Congreve, Poet

"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

"I am with you heart and soul in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life"

Frank Leslie, Artist

"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

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

Zhuang Zi, Philosopher

"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others"

Frank Morgan, Actor

"Listen to advice, but follow your heart"

Conway Twitty, 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 knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business"

Ida Lupino, Actress

"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world"

John Evelyn, Musician

"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"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

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart"

An Wang, Businessman

"Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness"

Nathaniel Parker Willis, Author

"A heart makes a good home for the friend"

Yunus Emre, Poet

"Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have"

Gloria Estefan, Musician

"A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart"

Tom Brady, Athlete

"Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town"

Paul Verlaine, Poet

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