Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ameen Rihani

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Ambrose Bierce

MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.

Ambrose Bierce

HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.

Ambrose Bierce

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

Ambrose Bierce

Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.

Anthony Hope

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

Anthony Horowitz

I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being drawn across the bridge and the music rises into the night sky. It is far away and barely audible - but there it is! A pizzicato. Then a tremelo. The style is unmistakable. It is Sherlock Holmes who is playing. It must be. I hope with all my heart that he is playing for me . . .

Anthony Hopkins

Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.

Anthony Kiedis

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life.

Anthony Kiedis

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

Anthony Hopkins

Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.

Alicia Witt

I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with... or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.

Alicia Silverstone

I truly loved doing the videos, but it has been hard hearing all the time that you're just the Aerosmith chick.

Alicia Keys

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

Alicia Keys

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

Alice Thomas Ellis

I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.

Alice Walker

I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.

Alice Walker

Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

Alice Walker

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

Alice Walker

Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.

Alice Walker

So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.

Alice Walker

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

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.