Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's the very first I've heard of that.

That's very, very disappointing. My frustration is we can't get a hearing and can't get the subject matter on the floor.

That's unequivocal. There's been all sorts of speculation by all sorts of analysts who have never heard the word accountability. People can speculate all they want, but we made a very simple statement in our press release.

I was hearing of some of these problems, but I hoped things were more under control.

Chuck Mangione

I think people today are hearing music that I recorded thirty years ago and do not listen to it as if it is something old but just something good.

I think I had my heart in my throat the whole game,

Harry Reid

I thought it'd all work out, and we'd have a pleasant hearing and conservatives would give each other high fives,

Brenda Jackson

I thought I was dreaming, ... I heard a really loud bang.

You'll never ever hear her toot her own horn.

You'll be hearing about pain, pain that this defendant caused, ... Listen to what the victims lost that day, the day the defendant killed.

George Herbert

Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?

Jean Genet

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment...

Gerald Massey

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

Greil Marcus

Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

Gregory David Roberts

The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.

Iggy Pop

Punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

Horace

I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Jenny Holzer

Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phoney. I could puke every time I hear it

J. R. R. Tolkien

In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him.

Iyanla Vanzant

You never put her in your heart.

Isaac Barrow

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

Isaac Mizrahi

If you feel something in your heart, if you have a vision for it, then it's no longer a risk.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

Horace Mann

Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Larry Coker

If he was hurting, I didn't want to hear it.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.

Harry S Truman

With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.

J. K. Rowling

He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?