Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanna Baillie

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

Joanna Newsom

And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.

Joanna Newsom

It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.

Jim Rohn

Don't operate on the heart with a hatchet.

George M. Cohan

You're a grand old flag, You're a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of the land I love, The home of the free and the brave. Ev'ry heart beats true 'Neath the Red, White and Blue, Where there's never a boast or brag. But should auld acquaintance be forgot, Keep your eye on the grand old flag.

George Matthew Adams

People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.

George MacDonald

If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God without these millions of sights and sounds and scents and motions, weaving their endless harmonies. They come out of His heart to let us know a little of what is in it.

George MacDonald

No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!

George MacDonald

It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.

George MacDonald

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

George MacDonald

As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart....

George MacDonald

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.

George MacDonald

It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.

I live to hold communion With all that is divine, To feel there is a union Twixt Natures heart and mine.

George Lois

Working hard and doing doing great work is as imperative as breathing. Creating great work warms the heart and enriches the soul. Those of us lucky enough to spend our days doing something we love, something we're good at, are rich. If you do not work passionately (even furiously) at being the best in the world at what you do, you fail your talent, your destiny, and your god.

Emanuel Cleaver

Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.

Emanuel Azenberg

This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.

Emanuel Celler

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

Elvis Presley

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

Elvis Presley

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

Elliot Cowan

Plant spirit medicine is the shaman’s way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul.

Ellie Goulding

I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

Ellie Goulding

Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.

Ellie Goulding

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

Ellen Hopkins

Forever made that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender.

Ellen Hopkins

Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.

Ellen Hopkins

Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.

Ellen Hopkins

Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.

Ellen Hopkins

It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.

Ellen Hopkins

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

Ellen Hopkins

Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time

Elizabeth Fry

Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.

Elizabeth Goudge

He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.