Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

Oscar Wilde

Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

Oscar Wilde

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

Oscar Wilde

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Madonna Ciccone

You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

Madonna Ciccone

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.

Madonna Ciccone

You're frozen when your heart's not open

Madonna Ciccone

Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane - and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It made me second guess everything, because suddenly I thought, 'Oh god, everyone's heard all these demos.'

Maajid Nawaz

Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I've called it the re-humanisation process.

Mac Miller

Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.

Mac Miller

When being unable to differentiate a good from a bad decision:it has become time to follow your heart.

Lydia M. Child

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. ... The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

Lydia M. Child

Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.

Lydia M. Child

Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!

Lucretius

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I think more important than law is the hearts of people.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ...

Louis L'Amour

What can the will do when the heart commands?

Louis Farrakhan

Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim. That's why the world is in the shape that it's in.

Lorrie Moore

An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.

Lorrie Moore

I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with other people and their speech, friends I believed I was devoted to, people whose lives I can simply guess at now, that it gives me the impression I am simply a collection of them, that they all existed for themselves, but had inadvertently formed me, then vanished. But, what: Should I have been expected to create my own self, out of nothing, out of thin, thin air and alone?

Lorrie Moore

You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.

Lorrie Moore

You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this, it would turn away at something greater, then more and more until your heart stayed averted, immobile, your imagination redistributed away from the world and back only toward the bad maps of yourself, the sour pools of your own pulse, your own tiny, mean, and pointless wants.

Lorrie Moore

She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.

Lizz Winstead

People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.

Liz Phair

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.

Michael Jordan

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

Michael Jackson

Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.

Michael Jackson

Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.

Michael Jackson

I'm always Peter Pan in my heart

Michael Jackson

We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.

Michael Jackson

Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.

Michael Jackson

Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?