Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The world stands out on either side, No wider than the heart is wide.

Edgar Winter

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

Edgar Lee Masters

The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.

Benjamin Franklin

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

Barbara Williams

The play is so close to the reality. . . . It comes out of the heart.

Barbra Streisand

You know, for me, the realization that two people should have the right to form a sacred union regardless of their gender was strengthened when I saw a performance of the play The Normal Heart in 1985. After feeling the love those two men had for each other, I dare anybody not to want them to get married by the end.

Avril Lavigne

I'm definitely really into rock music, and I feel like that is where my heart is.

Arthur Erickson

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

Arthur Conan Doyle

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!

Anton Chekhov

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

Anton Chekhov

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

Anton Chekhov

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

Anton Chekhov

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

Bellamy Young

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

Bela Lugosi

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

Bela Lugosi

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.

Bella Thorne

You always just have to be the best that you can be. And if you know that in your heart, then that's all that matters.

bell hooks

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

bell hooks

Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

bell hooks

Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given to us.

bell hooks

A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.

bell hooks

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

bell hooks

The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.

Barry Switzer

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

Barry Sanders

My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

Barry White

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

Austin Farrer

...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents.

Austin Carlile

LOVE WHAT YOU DO! Whatever that is, put your entire heart & soul into it, or don't do it at all.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.