Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Branch Cabell

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

James Brown

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

James Brown

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

James Boswell

People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids? A man cannot know himself better than by attending to the feelings of his heart and to his external actions, from which he may with tolerable certainty judge "what manner of person he is." I have therefore determined to keep a daily journal.

Jamaica Kincaid

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

Jacqueline Woodson

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

Jacqueline Woodson

You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D

Jacques Derrida

I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.

Jackie Chan

When I work I do it from my heart. And my heart is that I bring love to the world. When I travel around the world I bring my love. I bring so much love in my heart. I hope you can feel that.

Jackie Chan

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Jack White

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

James Garner

I'm a 'bleeding-heart liberal,' one of those card-carrying Democrats that Rush Limbaugh thinks is a communist. And I'm proud of it.

James Frey

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

J. R. R. Tolkien

But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this we shall put him out of reckoning.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

J. R. R. Tolkien

What does your heart tell you?

J. R. R. Tolkien

Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.

J. R. R. Tolkien

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

J. R. R. Tolkien

But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart.

J. R. R. Tolkien

No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.

J. R. R. Tolkien

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way.

J. R. R. Tolkien

In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I cannot,' said Merry. 'I have never seen them. I have never been outside of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don't think I should have had the heart to leave it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Great heart will not be denied.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart.

J. R. R. Tolkien

For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!