Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cheney

I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.

Dick Cheney

The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.

We didn't play with a lot of heart and passion. They saw that, and they pounced on us.

But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.

It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.

Barack Obama

America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

Annie Dillard

We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home. There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

Ayn Rand

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

James Keller

One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride were soon recognized by most of his prospective customers. There was one worn, tiny wedge-shaped tool bearing the highest price, however, which seemed difficult to identify. "What is that?" someone asked. "I can't quite place it." "Oh that!" Satan answered. "That is Discouragement. It is my most valuable tool. With it I can open many hearts, since so few people know that it belongs to me."

James Keller

In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With His right hand He is knocking on a heavily paneled door. When the painting was unveiled, a critic remarked to the painter, "Mr. Hunt, the work is unfinished. There is no handle on the door." "That," Hunt answered, "is the door to the human heart. It can be opened only from the inside."

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

Traditionally, all the mayors that have been around during the time I've been around - Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani and Bloomberg - their hearts are not in the subways. The state runs them.

You lose a starting middle linebacker, ... thats the heart and soul of your defense.

Ozzie Guillen

Today was the first time in my life, the last two innings, my heart was pounding like crazy. I was so excited. So many people were waiting for this moment.

Alexandra Adornetto

Never love that which you cannot keep.

Alexander Pushkin

Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking Fragments of being, while together you and I Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.

Alexander Pushkin

Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! what store of riches it imparts!

Alexander Smith

Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

Alexander Smith

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Ali Smith

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.

Alexander Lowen

Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

Alexander Hamilton

An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good.

Adolf Hitler

I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.

Adolf Hitler

Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

Adelaide Anne Procter

Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.

Adele

There's a fire starting in my heart

Adam Savage

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.