Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Leonard

For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.

George Leonard

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

Georg Trakl

Cold metal walks across my forehead, spiders search for my heart. It is a light that goes out in my mouth...

George A. Smith

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

Garrett Hardin

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

Garrison Keillor

Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

Gabriela Isler

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

Gabrielle Roy

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

Gabriel Marcel

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

Francois Fenelon

Avoid all refined speculations; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly from one truth to another feed their curiosity and restlessness; they even distract their intellect with too great a multiplicity of views. Give every truth time to send down deep root into the heart.

Francois Fenelon

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us, he will give us at the moment the strength and courage that we need.

Francois Fenelon

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.

Francois Fenelon

True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.

Francois Fenelon

Pity enlarges the heart.

Francois Fenelon

Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruits.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

George Crabbe

Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.

George Crabbe

We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

George Clooney

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

Gayle Forman

I think you're the sort of person who finds money on the ground and waves it in the air and asks if anyone has lost it. I think you cry in movies that aren't even sad because you have a soft heart, though you don't let it show. I think you do things that scare you, and that makes you braver than those adrenaline junkies who bungee-jump off bridges.

Gayle Forman

There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You’d better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security “bullet

Gayle Forman

My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.

Gayle Forman

I actually feel something in my chest open, a feeling so intense, it’s like my heart’s about to burst. And I just let it. I just let it out.

Lord Acton

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Sathya Baba

A moment of concentrated prayer from heart is enough to melt and move God; hours of shouting do not count.

Lord Byron

A mind at peace with all below, / A heart whose love is innocent!

Richard Foreman

All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.

Clint Hurdle

All the players took to heart the conversations that were held at the end of last season.