Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. S. Eliot

And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

T. S. Eliot

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

T. S. Eliot

We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

T. S. Eliot

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

Sylvia Browne

Strength is nothing more than enduring life - to be able to survive the heartaches and agonies we go through with our heads held high. Sometimes just walking through adversity to get to the other side is a sign of strength.

Sylvia Earle

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.

Sydney J. Harris

When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.

Sylvester Stallone

I'm a patriot of the heart.

Sylvester Stallone

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

Suzanne Weyn

Mahoney: "Thirty-seven seconds. Great, well done; now we wait." Mr. Magorium: "No, we breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. our hearts beat, our minds create, our souls ingest. Thirty-seven seconds well used is a lifetime.

Suzi Quatro

Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to.

Suze Orman

The mind gives us thousands of ways to say no, but there's only one way to say yes, and that's from the heart.

Suze Orman

When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.

Susan Sontag

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

Susan Sontag

Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

Josie Maran

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

Josiah Royce

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

Joss Whedon

Life's a show and we all play a part And when the music starts We open up our hearts

Joss Whedon

My soul is wrapped in harsh repose, Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes, But soft... behold! A sunlight beam Butting a swath of glimmering gleam. My heart expands, 'tis grown a bulge in it, Inspired by your beauty... Effulgent.

Joss Whedon

I wish more people would take the extraordinary talent they have and just let their id go because that's what we discovered. We discovered that the sillier we got, the more people believed that we were speaking from our hearts.

Koko Taylor

It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

Kofi Annan

On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.

Kim Kardashian

If no tender words are spoken, no tender hearts can be broken.

Kim Kardashian

I think when you know so deep in your heart that you just to listen to your intuition and follow your heart, theres no right or wrong thing to do.

Kim Kardashian

And of Kanye's [West]? I have to say [I love] his heart. And I've always loved his legs.

The best gift is giving from your heart

Kevin James

The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.

Kent McCord

I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.

Kent Nerburn

Giving is a miracle that can transform the heaviest of hearts. Two people, who moments before lived in separate worlds of private concerns, suddenly meet each other over a simple act of sharing. The world expands, a moment of goodness is created, and something new comes into being where before there was nothing. . . . But true giving is not an economic exchange; it is a generative act. It does not subtract from what we have; it multiples the effect we can have in the world.

Kent Nerburn

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

Kenneth Branagh

I noted about Cate Blanchett was her very positive lack of concern for how she turns out in [Cinderella]. She is happy to be a villainess and very pleased to be encouraged as I did with her to reveal this backstory and feel as though this was very human, that this broken heart of hers, if you might regard it that way, would be visible, but she never played for sympathy and I really admired that about her, so she's just there, she just is and uncompromisingly.

Kendrick Lamar

I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals

Kelly Ripa

I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.