Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanna Baillie

He was not all a father's heart could wish;/ But oh, he was my son! my only son.

Anna Jameson

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

Steve Clark

To be honest, I never even thought of it or heard of it.

Anna Jameson

I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.

Dieter Rams

My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.

Edgar Allan Poe

To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

Edgar Allan Poe

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

Edgar Allan Poe

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; — This it is, and nothing more.

Edgar Allan Poe

Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!

Edgar Allan Poe

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

Edgar Allan Poe

The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.

Edgar Allan Poe

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Edgar Allan Poe

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore...

Eleanor Roosevelt

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.

Elbert Hubbard

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Some friends leave footprints in your heart

Eleanor Roosevelt

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

Eileen Caddy

When your desire is to bring peace and harmony to the world, then you will have to start by finding peace and harmony within your own heart. It is a waste of time talking about peace. You have to seek and find that consciousness of peace which nothing and no one can disturb, and remain in it.

Edvard Munch

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

Eduardo Galeano

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

Eduardo Galeano

Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.

Brian Jones

Anton has been through a lot, but I've never once heard him complain.

Any man who will look into his heart and honestly write what he sees there, will find plenty of readers.

Any judge can hear this matter. We just want justice for the victim.

An important part of this is the immediacy and completeness of the information that's provided. If people see or hear something, they can immediately pick up the phone or e-mail their congressman.

And that's the last we heard of it for the next 43 years.

Sathya Baba

A pure thought from a pure heart is better than a mantra.

John DeLuca

a place like ours, one of the smaller places that we haven't heard a lot about.