Famous Quotes & Sayings

Betty Wright

Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive to.' But then there are songs where you can actually hear it as a movie.

Bill Callahan

My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.

Alexandra Adornetto

Never love that which you cannot keep.

Alexander the Great

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well;

Alexander Pushkin

Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking Fragments of being, while together you and I Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.

Alexander Pushkin

Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! what store of riches it imparts!

Alexander Smith

Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

Alexander Smith

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Ali Smith

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.

Alexander Lowen

Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

Alexander Hamilton

An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good.

We want to be heard. The only way to be heard is to vote.

Adolf Hitler

I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.

Adolf Hitler

Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

Adelaide Anne Procter

Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.

Adele

There's a fire starting in my heart

Adam Savage

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.

Adam Clarke

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

Ace Frehley

I've never read anything about heroin where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin.

Abraham Verghese

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Abraham Verghese

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

Abraham Lincoln

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

Abraham Lincoln

Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

Angus Young

I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.

Ani Difranco

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

Ani Difranco

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

Ani Difranco

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Andy Goldsworthy

Time confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom. outside the body, time is a pair of compasses in the hands of eternity, but inside it is a pendulum, fastened to the heart. the heart takes its measure from the lengthening swing of the pendulum surveying what time is left. in its own rhythm time spreads itself wildly here and there and is crippled elsewhere. its unequally distributed weight wounds my body - that is how the particularities of my life are manifest.

Andy Goldsworthy

At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.

Andrew Motion

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril