Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Fonda

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.

Jan Karon

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You....

Jamie Foxx

A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.

Anne Bronte

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

Juvenal

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Juvenal

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

Juvenal

Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.

Jose Carreras

In recitals, you are naked before the audience - well, naked with your jacket and tails. The audience sees and hears the real person, not some role you are interpreting.

Katharine Graham

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

Kirsten Gillibrand

For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.

Antonin Artaud

Actors are athletes of the heart.

Antonin Artaud

I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.

Antonin Artaud

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

Frederic Bastiat

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

We always hear that something else is more important.

Denzel Washington

True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already,

Denis O'Hare

We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.

Denise Levertov

blue bead on the wick, there's that in me that burns and chills, blackening my heart with its soot, I think sometimes not Apollo heard me but a different god.

Denise Levertov

In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more of the night before I open eyes and heart to illumination. I must still grow in the dark like a root not ready, not ready at all.

Denise Levertov

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Denis Leary

The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could've done with the character. If we'd done a sequel to 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' what would that have been like? But for the most part, you try not to think of that, because it's just going to break your heart.

Deepika Padukone

It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.

Dee Hock

Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. Use the remainder to induce those you 'work for' to understand and practice...lead yourself, lead your supervisors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

Dee Hock

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

I'm also big on journaling. You can write in the sand or on a watermelon or whatever suits you, but the key is to get it out of your head and out of your heart and down your arms and into something, a keyboard or piece of paper.

Deborah Norville

It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.

Deb Caletti

I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat

Deb Caletti

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.

Deb Caletti

In the middle of the night I am awakened by a sound. I sit up abruptly in bed. I hear it again. It's music. Wait, it sounds like the ice cream man, in our house. Is this some kind of twisted nightmare? The flipping ice cream man, breaking in to chop us all up in our beds to the tune of 'Zippity Do Dah'?... My heart slows. I remember. There is no psycho ice cream man here. It is just our new musical soap dispenser...

Deb Caletti

Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t. People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.

Dido Armstrong

I haven't ever really found a place that I call homeI never stick around quite long enough to make itI apologize that once again I'm not in loveBut it's not as if I mindthat your heart ain't exactly breaking.

Dierks Bentley

No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Since the beginning of time, love has been the source of both the highest bliss and the heaviest burdens. At the heart of misery from the days of Adam until today, you will find the love of wrong things. And at the heart of joy, you will find the love of good things."And the greatest of all good things is God.