Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Savage Landor

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

Walter Savage Landor

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Scott

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

Walter Scott

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Walter Scott

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.

Walter Scott

...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

Walter Scott

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

Walter Scott

The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!

Walter Scott

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

Walter Hagen

You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.

Walter Dean Myers

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

Yo-Yo Ma

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

Yo-Yo Ma

When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.

Yitzhak Rabin

Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - on, they should not be an afterthought, but they should be at the heart of a good Australian Government.

Yitzhak Rabin

For me, Jerusalem was united, will be under Israel sovereignty, will be the capital of Israel and the heart of the Jewish people.

Winston Churchill

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

Winston Churchill

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.

Winston Churchill

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Winston Churchill

No sky is heavy if the heart be light

Winston Churchill

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Winston Churchill

Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

Willie Aames

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

Willie Aames

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.

Willie Aames

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.

William Safire

The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

William S. Burroughs

That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.

William Lyon Phelps

Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.

William Law

We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.

William Law

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.

William J. H. Boetcker

Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.

William Jennings Bryan

Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.

William Jennings Bryan

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.