Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Lea

I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver.

Nancy Gibbs

There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

Mortimer Adler

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

Ozzy Osbourne

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

P. G. Wodehouse

When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.

P. G. Wodehouse

I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.

P. G. Wodehouse

I was in rare fettle and the heart had touched a new high. I don't know anything that braces one up like finding you haven't got to get married after all.

Ovid

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

Ovid

Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.

Ovid

Truly it is allowed us to weep: by weeping we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a stream. [Lat., Flere licet certe: flendo diffundimus iram: Perque sinum lacrimae, fluminis instar enim.]

Ovid

When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

Ovid

For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

Ovid

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Paul Myers

The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.

Paul Newman

I would like it if people would think that beyond Newman, there's a spirit that takes action, a heart, and a talent that doesn't come from my blue eyes.

Paul Eluard

The curve of your eyes goes around my heart, A round of dance and sweetness, Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle, And if I don't know any more all that I've lived through It's because I haven't always been seen by you.

Paul Bowles

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...

Matthew Fox

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Matt Groening

You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)

Matt Groening

I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.

Matt Groening

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing.

Marya Mannes

Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

Mary Wollstonecraft

At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts...

Mary Wollstonecraft

...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society.

Marya Hornbacher

My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

Marya Hornbacher

I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.

Martha Gellhorn

I feel very troubled in the head and heart.

Martha Beck

The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.