Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you’re right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break—be they bones, hearts, or promises—can be put back together but will never really be whole. And, in spite of what I said, you can miss a person you’ve never known. I learn this over and over again,

John Gray

Find something that feels good, that resonates with your heart.

John Gresham Machen

The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

John Greenleaf Whittier

All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain Like shadows on the winter sky Like frost upon the pane

John Green

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

John Green

Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.

John Green

You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.

John Green

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

John Green

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

Patti Smith

Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.

Patti Smith

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

Pat Williams

Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.

Pat Robertson

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

Pat Robertson

The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

P. D. James

The greatest mystery of all is the human heart,

P. D. James

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

P. J. O'Rourke

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

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

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.