Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel de Cervantes

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

Miguel de Cervantes

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Miguel de Cervantes

It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.

Miguel de Cervantes

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

Miguel de Cervantes

A shy face is better than a forward heart.

Miguel de Cervantes

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

Miguel de Cervantes

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

Thomas Jefferson

An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

Thomas Jefferson

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

Robert Holden

At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart

Robert Holden

'One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.'

Robert Hass

I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."

Robert Herrick

Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.

Rick Perry

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

Rick Perry

There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds.

Rick Perry

I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement.

Rick Perry

I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart.

Rick Riordan

Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo.

Taylor Caldwell

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Edward Dahlberg

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

Edward de Bono

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

Edward de Bono

I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

Edward Albee

The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this is genetic, of course, but I think it is in part that they worry so for us, care so much.

Edith Hamilton

Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)

Eddie Griffin

Actually it broke my heart to hear that we were going to have to part ways, ... It's a business and they had to do what they had to do.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.

Jonathan Maberry

A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.

Jonathan Maberry

No matter what choice you make, it doesn't define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices and then turn around and walk a bad path. No choice we make lasts our whole life. If there's ever a choice you've made that you no longer agree with, you can make another choice.

Jonathan Lethem

My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.

Jonathan Lethem

My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.

Jonathan Lethem

All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart,

Jonathan Lethem

My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.

Jonathan Groff

Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy.