Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Hirshfield

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Jane Campion

In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.

Jane Goodall

The only possible way to get somebody to change is to reach into their hearts.

Jane Goodall

Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth; we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work.

Jane Goodall

I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.

Jane Fonda

Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?

Jane Fonda

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.

Jan Karon

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You....

Jamie Foxx

A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.

Anne Bronte

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

Juvenal

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Juvenal

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

Juvenal

Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.

One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my goal was to serve the play. And I realized if an actor can make audiences' hearts resonate or make them question their values - that's an important thing to do!

Eric Williams

I was impressed with Casey. He showed a lot of heart for not wrestling much all year.

Brooke Burns

I was a virgin until I was 18, and then my first - if I told you who my first was you would really have a heart attack.

Albert Speer

I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.

I would rather give up a weekend in Cancun, Mexico when I'm 25 than wonder when I'm older: Do I want to take my heart pill, or do I want to eat?

But the subject has not gripped the hearts and minds of most Canadians.

E. B. White

But the cath lab isn't waiting for you to have a heart attack. We have to react.

Kurt Vonnegut

But doing that job, surviving it, was like getting a Purple Heart. I wouldn't have missed it for anything.

I loved getting everyone together, putting my heart into it and being able to surprise her.

Gerald Anderson

I didn't want to sign on with a team and then quit. I went on and did what my heart wanted to do.

John Gibbons

I don't even know if we're looking for that. I just know my guys. They've got a lot of heart. They just get after it.

I don't get a sense that your heart was in this, frankly,

I don't know what to think; all I know is my heart popped. I always thought about them, I always talked about them. I knew one day I'd find them again.

I am seated in the hearts of all beings.

Chinua Achebe

Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.

Chinua Achebe

Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not.

Chinua Achebe

When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.

Chin-Ning Chu

Work Does Not Need You, You Need Work. Through Work, Destiny Unfolds. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Chief Joseph

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

China Mieville

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.