Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. A. Carson

For example, the Bible does say this is a proposition, "There is no God." But of course the context of Psalm 14:1 enriches it a bit: "the fool has said in his heart, there is no God." So there are contextual constraints and when you finish putting in all the contextual constraints and sophisticated discussions of what inerrancy is and isn't.

D. A. Carson

The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin

D. H. Lawrence

So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.

D. H. Lawrence

I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

D. H. Lawrence

He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.

D. H. Lawrence

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

D. H. Lawrence

Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.

D. H. Lawrence

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

D. H. Lawrence

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

Crystal Reed

Acting is really therapeutic for me, personally. That's something that I'll always remember. I don't know how it's going to look, but I gave it my heart and soul.

Cristina Saralegui

I'm very, very Spanish. I have fat cheeks on both ends. I'm sitting on my Spanish part. And it's my heart, the way I am, the way I speak. It has nothing to do with the way I look.

Conrad Veidt

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

Conrad Hall

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

Conor Oberst

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

Conor Oberst

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

Clint Eastwood

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.

Claire Cameron

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

Clarence Clemons

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

Clarence Darrow

Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?

Clarence Darrow

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not give her all, she will have nothing. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

Clarence Darrow

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.

Daniel De Leon

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

Dan Brown

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

David Mamet

Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.

David Frost

This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.

David Coverdale

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

David Attenborough

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

Darren Criss

For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season.

Jasmine Trias

If there are roles that come my way after this, I might just do it part-time. But for me, studies come first. I want to be a heart surgeon ultimately.

Colin Morgan

Anything that is close to your heart is worthy of your time and commitment.

We showed a lot of heart at the end of the game, and never quit.

We should speak only after our thoughts have been purified and our mind and heart have become pure.

Sathya Baba

We should realize that man has not only a mind which conceives thoughts, but also a heart which can put them into practice.