Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. ... At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question "What will make me happy?" as "What will make me healthy?" ... Our souls do not spell out their troubles.

Alain de Botton

These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.

Alain de Botton

We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.

Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes we are to guard our heart...protect it from invasion and keep things safe and secure. Sometimes we should give our heart... let certain qualities out and release them to others

Charles R. Swindoll

If we choose to be offended when we don't get our own way, Then we're going to live constantly on the edge of anger. But if we say to ourselves, " A merry heart does good like a medicine," It'll make all the difference in the world.

Charles Kendall Adams

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

Charles Colson

I meet millions who tell me that they feel demoralized by the decay around us. The hope that each of us has is not in who governs us, or what laws are passed... Our hope is in the power of God working in the hearts of people...

Charles Darwin

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

Bonnie Tyler

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

Bonnie Raitt

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Bonnie Raitt

I can't make you love me if you don't, You can't make your heart feel something it won't.

Bono

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

Barry Goldwater

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

Arthur Wing Pinero

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Arthur Schopenhauer

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head, of the understanding.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

Aristide Briand

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

Arjun Rampal

At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.

Anton Yelchin

I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.

Antonio Machado

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.

Antonio Porchia

A large heart can be filled with very little.

Anzia Yezierska

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

Anzia Yezierska

As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.

Anzia Yezierska

Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.

Bruce Jenner

Have an open mind and an open heart. I'm not this bad person. I'm just doing what I have to do.

Bruce Lee

It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.