Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwidge Danticat

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

Edward Young

A death-bed's a detector of the heart.

Edward Young

Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."

Edward Young

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

Edward Young

Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, When do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below All that chill December snow?

Edmund Spenser

Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win.

Edmund Spenser

A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.

Edmund Spenser

Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

Edmund Burke

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.

Edmund Burke

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

Edmund Burke

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Eckhart Tolle

There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in this case 'heart' means 'ego,' 'when the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.'

Elias Hicks

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

Elias Hicks

And the law of God is written in every heart, and it is there that he manifests himself; And in infinite love, according to our necessities, states, conditions. And as we are all various and different from one another, more or less, so the law by the immediate operation of divine grace in the soul, is suited to every individual according to his condition.

Elijah Wood

If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?

Elijah Wood

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

Elif Safak

We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No two hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same. He would have made it so. Therefore, disrespecting differences and imposing your thoughts on others is tantamount to disrespecting God’s holy scheme.

Elif Safak

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

Elie Wiesel

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

Elie Wiesel

At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.

Elie Wiesel

There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.

Edward Sapir

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

Edward Norton

Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

Edward Norton

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

Edward Norton

I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?

We have heart, the heart of a champion.

Bruno Bettelheim

No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.

Bruce Willis

I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics.

Bruce Willis

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

Brit Marling

I think movies do change people's hearts.

Britney Spears

I love my jeans and my sweats-I’m really just a tomboy at heart. So it’s really hard for me to be like Kim Kardashian and be makeup-and hair-ready every time I go out of my house. I’m not a believer in that, you know? On the other hand, when you do wear those sweats, you’re like, Oh God, I should step it up a notch.

Britney Spears

I don't think anyone can give you advice when you've got a broken heart.