Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Luigi Pirandello

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Luigi Pirandello

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

Luigi Pirandello

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. ever thine ever mine ever ours

Ludwig van Beethoven

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Ludwig van Beethoven

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

Ludwig van Beethoven

What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

Luanne Rice

Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.

Lu Xun

Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.

Luc de Clapiers

It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or to travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.

Luc de Clapiers

We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.