Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rufus Jones

Friends come back from their worship with a new sense of ordination, but not the ordination of human hands. Something has happened in the stillness that makes the heart more tender, more sensitive, more shocked by evil, more dedicated to ideals of life, and more eager to push back the skirts of darkness and to widen the area of light and love.

Rufus Wainwright

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

Ronald Reagan

In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.

Robert Jordan

I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

Robert Jarvik

As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world.

Robert Jarvik

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

Robert Jarvik

As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.

Robert Jarvik

The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.

Robert James Waller

if only we lost our minds and arrived at our hearts

Robert James Waller

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

Robert Hunter

But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart

Rodney Crowell

Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

Rodney Crowell

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

Rodney Crowell

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

Rodman Philbrick

His heart was simply to big for his body.

Rodman Philbrick

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

Rodney Atkins

I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.

Roberto Cavalli

Israel is in my heart.

Robertson Davies

Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

Robertson Davies

That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy, but it does mean an awareness of influences that touch our lives, sometimes in ways that seem cruel and unfeeling, and sometimes in ways that open up a glory which can never be forgotten.

Robertson Davies

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Robert Southwell

As in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear.

A man's life is an appendix to his heart.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Robert Stone

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

Robert Southey

Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.

Robert Patrick

You don't buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls.

Robert Palmer

A pretty face, don't make a pretty heart.

Robert Owen

There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

Robert Penn Warren

A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.

Robert M. Pirsig

Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.