Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Gibson

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

Will Cuppy

I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

Will Durant

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

Sarah Rees Brennan

She had worried that she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. she had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.

Sarah Palin

Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this debt increase debate. He waited until it was a done deal that we would increase the debt ceiling and more money would be spent, more money would be borrowed and spent on bigger government, and then he came out and made a statement that he didn't like the deal after all. You can't defer an issue and assume that the problem is then going to be avoided.

Sarah Bernhardt

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness.

Sara Cox

I was a barmaid for my mum for years, as we lived above a pub. I still can't hear the Heartbeat theme tune without breaking into a cold sweat, as it used to start at the same time as my shift.

Sappho

Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

Sappho

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

Sara Bareilles

There are so many wonderful classic roles, but I also would be really interested in developing something brand new. I think my heart would probably be in developing something brand new; I think that sounds really exciting.

Sara Bareilles

Jump start my kaleidoscope heart, Love to watch the colors fade, They may not make sense, But they sure as hell made me.

Samuel Rogers

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

Samuel Rogers

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

Samuel Rogers

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!

Samuel Rogers

Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before.

Samuel Smiles

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

Samuel Smiles

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

William Ellery Channing

The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.

William Ellery Channing

Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the perfection and happiness of a better world,-it is possible still to cling to the conviction of God's merciful purpose towards His creatures, of His parental goodness even in suffering, still to feel that the path of duty, though trodden with a heavy heart, leads to peace.

William Ellery Channing

Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world, We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou hast brought from heaven; for the souls Thou hast warmed with love to man, and lifted up in love to God; for the efforts of divine philanthropy which Thou hast inspired; and for that hope of a pure celestial life, through which Thy disciples triumph over death.

William Faulkner

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

William Faulkner

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

William Faulkner

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

William Faulkner

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

Willard Scott

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

Willem Dafoe

I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!

Ronald Reagan

Together, we'll build a far better future for America -- a future of growth, opportunity, and security, anchored by the values of a people who are confident, compassionate, and whose heart is good.