From The Heart Quotes

I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.

Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.

The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

Maidens hearts are always soft: Would that men's were truer!

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.

Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.

The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.

Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?

Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.

How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear

Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.

The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.

Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?

You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.

A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.

The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.