Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Collins

There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the redheads. They'd been our servants in the Training Center, so they arrested them, too. I watched them being tortured to death. She was lucky. They used too much voltage and her heart stopped right off. It took days to finish him off. Beating, cutting off parts. They kept asking him questions, but he couldn't speak, he just made these horrible animals sounds. They didn't want information, you know? They wanted me to see it.

Tariq Ramadan

Proud to be a Muslim isn't a stamp you have on your heart, it's a light you have in your heart.

Sophie Kinsella

Look into your heart- and go after what you really want.

Sophocles

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Sophocles

When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.

Sophocles

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

Sophocles

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

Sophocles

Brave hearts do not back down back off.

Stephen Mitchell

When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

Stephen Levine

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

Stephen Levine

The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.

Stephen Levine

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

Stephen Levine

In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same -- Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.

Stephen Levine

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

Stephen King

The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

Stephen King

I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.

Stephen King

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...

Stephen King

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

Stephen King

I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

Stephen King

Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

Stephen King

Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.

Stephen King

But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa...

Stephen King

Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated like weird serum, cold on the right side of her body, then hot on the left, where her heart was. It seemed to come nowhere near her head, which remained clear.

Stephen King

Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend

Stephen King

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Stephen King

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

Stephen King

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

Stephanie Mills

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

Stedman Graham

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

Stedman Graham

We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.

Stefan Molyneux

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

Stefan Molyneux

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

Sophie Swetchine

We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.