Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rajneesh

If you are seeking for security, certainty, your eyes will become closed. And you will be less and less surprised and you will lose the capacity to wonder. Once you lose the capacity to wonder, you have lost religion. Religion is the opening of your wondering heart. Religion is a receptivity for the mysterious that surrounds us. Don't seek security; don't seek advice on how to live your life.

Thomas Jefferson

Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.

Thomas Jefferson

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Thomas Jefferson

When the heart is right, the feet are swift.

Thomas Jefferson

An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

Thomas Jefferson

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

Robert Holden

At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart

Robert Holden

'One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.'

Robert Hass

I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."

Robert Herrick

Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.

Rick Perry

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

Rick Perry

There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds.

Rick Perry

I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement.

Rick Perry

I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart.

Rick Riordan

Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo.

Taylor Caldwell

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Tana French

Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting to know what happened to her hamster, you develop an instant belief in anything that dissolves some of the heartbreak off her face.

Tamora Pierce

My heart bleeds buttermilk. -Daine

Tamora Pierce

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

Tamora Pierce

Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man hadn’t died of a heart attack. Instead he seemed to thrive on disaster and finding people seated in the wrong places.

Taiye Selasi

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

Takashi Murakami

The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

Tad Williams

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

Tablo

My heart was closed. Cold. I was self-conscious and cynical.

Tacitus

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

Sylvia Plath

O heart, such disorganization!

Sylvia Plath

There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart - It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge, For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.

Sylvia Plath

What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?

Sylvia Plath

Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.

Sylvia Plath

And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.

Sylvia Plath

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?

Sylvia Plath

Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream