Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Brokaw

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

Tom Brokaw

It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

Tom Brokaw

It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or sectarian violence. No key stroke can ever clean the air, save a river, preserve a forest. This transformational new technology must be an extension of our hearts as well as of our mind.

Tom Coburn

Careerism in Washington "goes to the heart of what's wrong in America right now."

Todd Akin

At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.

Tobias Wolff

The human heart is a dark forest.

Tina St. John

He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her..

Tia Carrere

That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values.

Sam Houston

I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could do more for the union, but I wish to do more; for the destruction of the union would be the destruction of all the States. A stab in the heart is worse then a cut in a limb, for this may be healed.

Tana French

Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting to know what happened to her hamster, you develop an instant belief in anything that dissolves some of the heartbreak off her face.

Tamora Pierce

My heart bleeds buttermilk. -Daine

Tamora Pierce

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

Tamora Pierce

Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man hadn’t died of a heart attack. Instead he seemed to thrive on disaster and finding people seated in the wrong places.

Taiye Selasi

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

Takashi Murakami

The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

Tad Williams

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

Tablo

My heart was closed. Cold. I was self-conscious and cynical.

Tacitus

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

Sylvia Plath

O heart, such disorganization!

Sylvia Plath

There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart - It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge, For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.

Sylvia Plath

What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?

Sylvia Plath

Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.

Sylvia Plath

And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.

Sylvia Plath

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?

Sylvia Plath

Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream

Sylvia Plath

I hurl my heart to halt his pace.

Sylvia Plath

Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.

Sylvia Plath

It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.

Sylvia Plath

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

Sylvia Plath

Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?

Sylvia Plath

I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key; in his eye's darkroom I can see my X-rayed heart, dissected body: I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard s study.

Sylvia Plath

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.