Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Schultz

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

Howard Dean

America's greatness rests on far more than the power of our arms. Our greatness is also measured by our goodness, it's in the capacity of our minds, of our hearts, and it's in the strength of our democracy.

Honore de Balzac

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

Honore de Balzac

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

Honore de Balzac

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

Honore de Balzac

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Honore de Balzac

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

Honore de Balzac

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

Honore de Balzac

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Honore de Balzac

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Honore de Balzac

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

Honore de Balzac

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

Honore de Balzac

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

Honore de Balzac

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

Honore de Balzac

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

Honore de Balzac

White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

Honore de Balzac

She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

Honore de Balzac

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Honore de Balzac

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

Ian Ziering

Steve Sanders lives on in our hearts and in our minds.

Ice Cube

I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.

Walter Bagehot

He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth; he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate.

Lord Byron

Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies

Hear all, see all, say nowt, tak'all, keep all, gie not, and if tha ever does owt for nowt do it for thysen.

He ran his heart out. That's the way he runs. If you don't go fast, he doesn't run. That's his weapon, and he uses it well.

Reese Witherspoon

He put his heart and soul into this performance.

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

For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name. (Psalms 33:21)

Ivan Turgenev

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

Ivan Turgenev

I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved...

Ivan Turgenev

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

Ishmael Beah

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

Isla Fisher

I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.