Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. P. Thompson

We hung in there and played our hearts out. But we were too short-handed without Devin.

Clint Hurdle

We don't want them going out and working uphill. We'll save the purple hearts for the regular season.

The seniors were the heartbeat of this team. We would have struggled without them.

Lord Byron

The sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Richard Wright

In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.

Richard Wright

Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?

Richelle Mead

Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.

Richelle Mead

Adrian stood there leaning against the doorframe, watching me with his heart in his eyes. In my chest, my own heart was breaking. On my cheek, the lily reminded me who I was.

Richelle Mead

You can't," I murmured, swallowing the tears back with great effort. "You can't keep saving me, can't keep trying to. It's too late." "No," he said. His heart was in his eyes, and it was ripping mine apart. "Not for you. Never.

Richelle Mead

My heart shattered. My world shattered

Richelle Mead

Back to prison. Maybe if you fake a heart attack, I can make a break for it. (Rose Hathaway says to Lissa Dragomir)

Richelle Mead

While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to break his heart too much when the time comes.

Richelle Mead

Is he... is Dimitri a Strigoi?" Mason hesitated only a moment, like he was afraid to answer me, and then—he nodded. My heart shattered. My world shattered.

Richelle Mead

What If Following Her Heart Means Rose Could Lose Her Best Friend Forever?

Richelle Mead

She snuggled back under the blanket with me, turned toward me so that she could rest her head on my chest. “I hear your heart,” she said. “Do you check every once in a while, just to make sure I’m not undead?

Richelle Mead

I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

Richelle Mead

Where are you going?" he asked. "To break someone's heart," I replied.

Richelle Mead

Hey Rose, welcome back. You still breaking hearts?" "Are you volunteering?" His grin widened." Let's hang out sometime and find out. If you ever get parole.

Richelle Mead

Jesse: " Hey Rose, welcome back. Still breaking hearts?" Rose: " Are you volunteering?

Richelle Mead

Even when I was dizzy with vodka, that smile never failed to make my heart speed up.

Richelle Mead

Roza, my self-control is ten times stronger than yours." I opened my eyes, shifting to look into his. I brushed his hair back and smiled, certain my heart would expand and expand until there was nothing left of me. "Oh yeah? That's not the impression I just got." "Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.

Richelle Mead

I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?

Richelle Mead

I loved you and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up. You might as well have staked me.

Richelle Mead

I loved you!" he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. "I loved you, and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up.

Richard Barnfield

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

Richard Baxter

Nothing below heaven is worth setting our hearts upon.

Richard Baxter

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.

Richard Baxter

Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.

Richard Baxter

My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and its affections, but to breathe after thee. I have nothing to do with my Tongue and Pen, but to speak to thee, and for thee, and to publish thy Glory and thy Will. What have I to do with all my Reputation, and Interest in my Friends, but to increase thy Church, and propagate thy holy Truth and Service? What have I to do with my remaining Time, even these last and languishing hours, but to look up unto thee, and wait for thy Grace, and thy Salvation?

Richard Baxter

When Christ comes with regenerating grace, he finds no man sitting still, but all posting to eternal ruin, and making haste toward hell; till, by conviction, he first brings them to a stand, and then, by conversion, turn first their hearts, and then their lives, sincerely to himself.

Richard Baxter

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Richard Baxter

The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.

Renny Harlin

When I make decisions based on other circumstances, things don't necessarily go so well. So sometimes, even if something seems commercially tempting, I've learned that if it's not what's in your heart, it's probably not what you should do.