The Heart Quotes

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

When your body says 'no,' it doesn't matter how big your heart is.

I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

It's a shame, she had me convinced that she could've been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime.

His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.

Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

[Apollo 7 was] an expedition of the mind, not of the heart.

The hearts that love will know never winter's frost and chill. Summer's warmth is in them still.

To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.

Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

The world stands out on either side, No wider than the heart is wide.

It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?

When you get into your 40s, it's all about lighting. It's hard. You have to face whether the way you look is your self-worth or not. Once you get beyond that, it's all about what's in your heart.

We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.

Teach your heart that this is destiny

Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.

If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time

I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule.

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, With never a thought of sorrow; The old goes out, but the glad young year Comes merrily in tomorrow.

It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.

It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.

It’s a wonderful thing when you look inside your own heart and like what you see.

Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.

Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.