Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hoffer

It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

Eric Hoffer

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

Eric Berne

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.

Emo Philips

I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I though, "we've never had a democrat in the family before".

Emo Philips

My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a democrat in the family.

Emmitt Smith

I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.

Emmet Fox

Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.

James Corden

There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.

James Balog

In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because I don't want to hide from that. I want to acknowledge that there is a living human and a living eye and a living mind and a living heart responding to what's going on out there.

James Balog

There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear.

James Beard

The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions.

James Allen

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

James Allen

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.

James Allen

As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be

James Anthony Froude

Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart language which we cannot choose but love? And what has been their reward? They have sent down their name to be the by-word of all after ages; the worst reproach of the worst men a name convertible with atheism and devil-worship.

James Anthony Froude

I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood .

James Anthony Froude

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

James Anthony Froude

It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human being in whose breast a human heart is beating, to know that one single creature is in that dreadful place would make a hell of heaven itself. And they have hearts in heaven, for they love there.

James Anthony Froude

Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.

James Anthony Froude

To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.

James Anthony Froude

When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.

Jake Bugg

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

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.