Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angela Carter

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

Angela Carter

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

Andrew Jackson

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.

Amy Smart

I do feel like I'm a tomboy at heart, so I have an easy time working with guys.

Amy Tan

Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.

Amy Tan

Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

Amy Tan

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

Amity Gaige

To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.

Anthony Bourdain

There are chefs who are spectacular technicians, and often their food is worth eating once or twice, but if there's no heart in it, if there's no personality in it, it's not something you want to go back for. But heart without any skill at all? All the heart in the world ain't gonna help you if you can't peel an onion, or if you don't understand how to apply heat properly. A well-done steak is a well-done steak.

Andy Serkis

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.

Andy Rooney

I've learned... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

Andy Stanley

[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.

Andy Stanley

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

Andy Stanley

For reasons known only to him, God has chosen to work through men and women who are willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the "thing" he has placed in their hearts to do. If God bas birthed a vision in you, it is only a matter of time until you will come upon the precipice of sacrifice.

Andy Stanley

Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.

Andy Stanley

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

Andy Stanley

Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.

Andy Stanley

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

Andy Stanley

The church must capture and keep the minds and hearts of students.

Andy Stanley

Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.

Andy Stanley

If you capture someone's heart, you will eventually get his hands and feet as well.

Andy Stanley

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

Andy Warhol

You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For always roaming with a hungry heart.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.

Alex Campbell

I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.