Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

Mark Twain

Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

Mark Twain

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

Mark Twain

Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

Mark Twain

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter...

Mark Twain

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

Mark Twain

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

Mark Twain

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

Mark Twain

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Mark Twain

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

Mark Twain

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

Mark Twain

[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

Mary Robinson

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

Mary Renault

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.

Mary Roach

One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. "The pictures in the anatomy atlas did not show nail polish", she wrote. "Did you choose the color? Did you think that I would see it? I wanted to tell you about the inside of your hands. I want you to know you are always there when I see patients. When I palpate an abdomen, yours are the organs I imagine. When I listen to a heart, I recall holding your heart.

Mary Roach

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

Mary Roach

It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.

All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?

It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.

Mary Baker Eddy

A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.

Mary Baker Eddy

We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

Marsha Norman

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

Marquis de Sade

I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.

Marquis de Sade

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

Marquis de Sade

Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!

Marquis de Sade

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Mark Millar

The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.

Marilyn Monroe

My heart belongs to daddy.

Marilyn Monroe

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.

The heart does heal and you will love like this again- except when you do, you'll deny that you ever loved like this before.

Nikki Grimes

For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.

Nikki Reed

Follow your heart and don't question it, no matter where it tells you to go It will open up a world of experiences you can't even imagine.

Nikki Sixx

It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.