Famous Quotes & Sayings

None of us was contacted about any hearings on this plan. There was no dialogue. The interstate was designated the American Legion Memorial Highway, and that's just been forgotten.

No one had the heart to get rid of it. To us it's a historical artifact.

Gareth Gates

No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.

One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.

One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my goal was to serve the play. And I realized if an actor can make audiences' hearts resonate or make them question their values - that's an important thing to do!

We are hear to celebrate, and I mean celebrate, the unique and wonderful life of Rosamond McPherson Young.

Jandy Nelson

I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE...

Jandy Nelson

But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Jandy Nelson

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Jandy Nelson

I don't know how the heart withstands it.

Jane Addams

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

Jane Austen

I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

Jane Austen

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

Jane Austen

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

Jane Austen

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

Jane Austen

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

Jane Austen

Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…

Jane Austen

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

Jane Austen

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

Jane Austen

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

Jane Austen

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

Jane Austen

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

Jane Austen

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Jane Austen

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Jane Austen

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Jane Austen

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

Jane Austen

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

Jane Austen

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

Jane Austen

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

Jane Austen

I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-" "Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you." "And I you.

Jane Austen

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

Jane Austen

she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

Jane Austen

There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.