Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dirk Nowitzki

The playoffs is all about showing heart and playing together.

Dionne Warwick

It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.

David Bowie

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

Dave Navarro

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

Dave Pelzer

Your going to be fine.I promise you."- with my finger I made an X sign on my chest-"cross my heart and hope to die,you have my word.You don't deserve to live like that,and we're going to turn things around.

Darryl Worley

POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

David Nicholls

Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

David Nicholls

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

David Ives

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

Dick York

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds,

William Temple

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

William Temple

Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.

The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.

Fighting, and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. The oppressed who have right on their side, must not take that right by force; the evil would continue. Hearts must be changed. The rich must wish to give! Life in man should be like a flame, warming all with whom it comes into contact. The spiritually awakened are like to bright torches in the sight of God, they give light and comfort to their fellows.

Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.

The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.

Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love

Aaron Hill

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.

Aaron Hill

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

Aaron Hill

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

When we started helping those people out, it made our hearts bigger.

Abraham Lincoln

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

Abraham Lincoln

To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

Alexandra Ripley

This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores" . . . meaning . . . habits of the heart.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

Alexandra Ripley

If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.

Alexandre Dumas

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!

Alexandre Dumas

When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.

Alexandre Dumas

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.