Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Francis de Sales

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently... And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Saint Francis de Sales

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Saint Francis de Sales

We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.

Saint Augustine

One loving heart sets another on fire.

Saint Augustine

The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

Tori Amos

Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing.

Tori Amos

Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?

Tori Amos

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

Tori Amos

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Vanessa Carlton

The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.

Vance Havner

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

Vance Havner

Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us. The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.

Vance Havner

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

Valentino Rossi

I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.

Uma Thurman

I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.

Rodney King

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

Robin Williams

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

Robin G. Collingwood

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts

Robin Hobb

You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

Robin Hobb

I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.

Robin Hobb

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

Robin Hobb

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Robert Reich

One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.

Robert E. Lee

We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit to give us a precious revival in our hearts and among the unconverted.

Robert E. Lee

I pray that on this day [Christmas] when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may fill the hearts of our enemies and turn them to peace.

Robert Cormier

There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.

Robert Cormier

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

Rob Thomas

It's the heart that really matters in the end.

Rob Sheffield

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

Rob Brydon

Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.

Richard Paul Evans

Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

Richard Paul Evans

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.