Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikos Kazantzakis

Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer.

Nigel Lythgoe

Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.

Nicole Jordan

I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.

Nicole Krauss

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

Neil Gaiman

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

Neil Gaiman

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

Myrtle Reed

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

Myrtle Reed

Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.

Myrtle Reed

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

N. T. Wright

Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.

N. T. Wright

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

Monica Potter

This loss has left me truly heartbroken. Robin Williams was one of the brightest, most loving & wonderful people I've ever been blessed to know. I'll miss him more than I can ever express in words.

Monica Potter

Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

Mike Melvill

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

Mike McGavick

While Safeco's turnaround is one of the greatest things I have ever participated in, the heart-wrenching decisions to let people go will stay with me forever.

Mike Murdock

My goal is for 300 people to hear the wisdom that God gives my heart for them to become millionaires for the sake of the Kingdom of God

Mignon McLaughlin

When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.

Mignon McLaughlin

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

Mignon McLaughlin

Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

Mignon McLaughlin

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

Johnny Giles

Kilbane did what he normally does: ran his heart out and gave the ball away a lot.

Johnny Giles

Pele wasn't as gifted as George Best and I would definitely put George above Johan Cruyff because he had more heart,

Johnny Marr

We're in a society where no one's putting a gun to your head and making you use your phone, but some people start to crack. "I Want the Heartbeat" is about the downside of it. People can and do break up friendships and relationships because of the internet, and that can't be good. You have to find a balance. You can't let it be the boss of you.

John Woo

The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.

John Williams

When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.

John Woolman

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

John Woolman

I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.

John Woolman

There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, where the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever, they become brethren in the best sense of the expression.

John Wooden

You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable.

John Ruskin

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

John Ruskin

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

John Ruskin

He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

John Ruskin

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.