Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lydia M. Child

Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!

Lucretius

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I think more important than law is the hearts of people.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ...

Louis L'Amour

What can the will do when the heart commands?

Louis Farrakhan

Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim. That's why the world is in the shape that it's in.

Lorrie Moore

An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.

Lorrie Moore

I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with other people and their speech, friends I believed I was devoted to, people whose lives I can simply guess at now, that it gives me the impression I am simply a collection of them, that they all existed for themselves, but had inadvertently formed me, then vanished. But, what: Should I have been expected to create my own self, out of nothing, out of thin, thin air and alone?

Lorrie Moore

You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.

Lorrie Moore

You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this, it would turn away at something greater, then more and more until your heart stayed averted, immobile, your imagination redistributed away from the world and back only toward the bad maps of yourself, the sour pools of your own pulse, your own tiny, mean, and pointless wants.

Lorrie Moore

She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.

Lizz Winstead

People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.

Liz Phair

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.

Michael Jordan

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

Michael Jackson

Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.

Michael Jackson

Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.

Michael Jackson

I'm always Peter Pan in my heart

Michael Jackson

We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.

Michael Jackson

Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.

Michael Jackson

Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?

Michael Jackson

I care about being paid fairly for what I do. When I approach a project, I put my whole heart and soul into it. Because I really care about it.

Michael Jackson

I'm willing to forgive the press, or forgive anybody, I was taught to love and forgive, which I do have in my heart.

Michael Jackson

God has always been in my heart and a part of my life and my familys lives. It is through Him that we draw our strength.

Michael Jackson

Holding on to love is not wrong, but you need to learn to hold it lightly, caressingly. Let it fly when it wants. When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful, and new. As long as love is in my heart, it's everywhere.

Michael Jackson

You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart.

Michael Jackson

I’m just a person who wants to be honest and do good, make people happy and give them the greatest sense of escapism through the talent God has given me. That’s where my heart is, that’s all I want to do. Just let me share and give, put a smile on people’s faces and make their hearts feel happy.

Michael Jackson

There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones.

Michael Jackson

I'll never let you part, for you're always in my heart

Michael Jackson

Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.

Michael Jackson

I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards. Is it really entertaining for me to get up there and crack a few weak jokes and force people to laugh because I'm Michael Jackson, when I know in my heart that I'm not funny?

Michael Jackson

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

Michael Jackson

To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.

Michael D. Higgins

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.