Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

John Adams

We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.

Joe Orton

Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly

Harvey Fierstein

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Harvey Mackay

Make your decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease.

Harvey Mackay

Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.

Louise Gluck

That's why I'm not to be trusted. Because a wound to the heart is also a wound to the mind

Gene Wilder

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?

James Joyce

And his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes

James Madison

If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to Whom it is addressed, it must be that in which those who join in it are guided only be their free choice-by the impulse of their hearts and the dictates of their consciences...

James Madison

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

James Madison

If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation.

James M. Barrie

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

Joe Rogan

You can't measure what's inside a man's heart.

Joe Frazier

I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but its in my heart.

Joan Halifax

No single answer can hold the truth of a good heart.

Joan Didion

Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

Erik Brynjolfsson

The heart of science is measurement.

Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.

Eric Topol

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

Eric Topol

For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

Eric Topol

The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

Eric Thomas

It's not about where you come from, it's about heart.

Eric Mabius

You do have to follow your heart, otherwise you're living a false life.

Eric Ludy

But the commission is now. The time to speak is when the Spirit of God boils the message so hot within you that it must come out. The time to write is when God Almighty presses his thumb against your heart and forces the words out like a steaming geyser.

Eric Liu

At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that there is no greater citizen than she who sacrifices; and that there is no greater measure of worth than contribution. These are values we can be proud of. After all, there is no moral system or religion on earth where the guiding ethic is grab more for yourself.

Emma McLaughlin

To all the guys who broke our hearts - we wouldn't appreciate what we have today without you.

Emmanuel Jal

A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.

Emmanuel Jal

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

Emmanuelle Beart

Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.

Emma Stone

This is life. Our bodies change. Our minds change. Our hearts change. Things are always evolving. I hope we can be supportive of each other and try to really have each other's backs, especially when we don't know the whole story.

Emma Thompson

I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love is, in a way.

Emma Goldman

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?