Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dante Alighieri

Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

Dante Alighieri

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride. [It., Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.]

Dante Alighieri

Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

Dante Alighieri

The well heeded well heard.

Dante Alighieri

Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts.

Dante Alighieri

A backward glance can often lift the heart.

Dante Alighieri

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Dan Savage

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

Dan Rather

Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.

Dan Rather

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Dan Quayle

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

Dan Fogelberg

Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes.

Dan Fogelberg

You've got to just follow your heart and do your best work. For better or worse, I have followed my heart. There is no doubt in my mind or heart that everything I've done is exactly what I intended to do.

Dan Fogelberg

As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.

Compay Segundo

As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

Columbus Short

I've learned that I can't do it all at once. So, you have to figure out your angle of attack. Coming in on the acting front, acting is a passion of mine. It's a true love. Dancing, I kind of just fell into. Choreographing, the same thing. But making films, producing and directing, that's the heartbeat of my existence.

Danielle Steel

Her life was beginning to make sense again, although she couldn’t say she was enjoying it. But her mind was clear, and her heart was not constantly as heavy. Only when she thought about him. But she knew that in time, she’d survive it. She had done it before and would again. Eventually the heart repairs.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis, where our Christmas tree is lighted.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

Dan Millman

May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of nature and feel the blessings of Spirit.

Dan Millman

If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

Dan Millman

I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.

Dan Millman

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

Dan Millman

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.

Dan Millman

You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I've shown you by example that a warrior's life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior's sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.

Dan Millman

Live with a peaceful heart; cultivate a warrior's spirit.

Dan Millman

As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.

Dan Millman

You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

Corliss Lamont

For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.'

Corrie Ten Boom

(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.