Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sanaa Lathan

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

Samuel Rutherford

Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.

Samuel Rutherford

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

Samuel Rutherford

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

Samuel Johnson

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

Samuel Johnson

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

Samuel Johnson

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

Samuel Johnson

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

Samuel Johnson

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others should think us still better than we think ourselves. To praise us for actions or dispositions which deserve praise is not to confer a benefit, but to pay a tribute. We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable, and which we are desirous to strengthen by a new suffrage; we have always hopes which we suspect to be fallacious, and of which we eagerly snatch at every confirmation.

Samuel Johnson

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

Sarah Shahi

It doesn't matter what people say or what the rules say or what you're supposed to do, you go after what's in your heart.

Robert Atkins

A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.

Robert Atkins

I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.

Robert Barclay

For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up

Robert Anton Wilson

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

Richard Lovelace

If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.

Richard M. Nixon

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Richard M. Nixon

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

Raymond E. Feist

The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart

Richard Rolle

O good Jesu Thou has bound my heart in the thought of Thy Name, and now I can not but sing it; therefore have mercy upon me, making perfect that Thou hast ordained.

Richard Selzer

The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.

Richard Russo

... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

Richard Russo

To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.

Richard Russo

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

Richard Russo

After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.

Richard Flanagan

We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will die, and who will ever understand any of this? And maybe we remember nothing most of all when we put our hands on our hearts and carry on about not forgetting.