Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Chapman

At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to meet that need for intimacy and love.

Gary Chapman

When people respond too quickly, they often respond to the wrong issue. Listening helps us focus on the heart of the conflict. When we listen, understand, and respect each other's ideas, we can then find a solution in which both of us are winners.

Friedrich Schiller

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

Friedrich Schiller

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

Friedrich Schiller

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

Friedrich Schiller

Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.

Friedrich Schiller

Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse.

Friedrich Schiller

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

Friedrich Schiller

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Friedrich Schiller

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Friedrich Schiller

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

Friedrich Schiller

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

Friedrich Schiller

If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

George Gissing

Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

Jon Meacham

Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.

Jon Meacham

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

Jon Meacham

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.

Jon Krakauer

At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.

Jon English

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

Jon Foreman

Your faith is what you do daily, you can't separate your heart from your body and keep them both alive, they're almost the same thing.

Jon Foreman

Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there's something more than the next new cell phone or gadget or relationship and that our heart beats in time with the sunset.

Jon Foreman

If it doesn't break your heart it isn't love

Jon Bon Jovi

Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an individual. Be unique. Stand out. Make noise. Make someone notice. That's the power of individuals.

Jojo Moyes

Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.

Jojo Moyes

So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.

Jojo Moyes

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

Jon Bon Jovi

My heart is like an open highway...people come and go and sometimes they are just beside you and you dont know

Johnny Cash

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

Johnny Cash

I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.

Johnny Cash

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line.

Lynn Collins

I’m an entrepreneur at heart. I’m not afraid of starting up, starting over or even failing for that matter, because the fact that I try new things in itself is a victory.

Lynn Johnston

Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.