Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Patterson

How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?

James Patterson

maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside

James McBride

The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's done. I just go to the next thing. I don't complain, I don't go to - I pick my battles very, very judiciously, and I just assume that there's good in the heart of everybody.

James McBride

Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

James McAvoy

The script is the most important thing for me. I'm advised that other things are important too, and they are. The director that you'll be working with is hugely important, and the cast that are with you is really important as well. But, for me, the thing that gets my heart excited and really makes me invested in something or not is just the quality of the script.

James Martineau

Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of our homes, the order and serenity of our minds, the spirit of patience and tender mercy in our hearts. Then will even the merest drudgery of duty cease to humble us, when we transfigure it by the glory of our own spirit.

James Martineau

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

James Madison

But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

James Madison

If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to Whom it is addressed, it must be that in which those who join in it are guided only be their free choice-by the impulse of their hearts and the dictates of their consciences...

James Madison

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

James Madison

If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation.

Tea Obreht

Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?

Tea Obreht

Wash the bones, bring the body, leave the heart behind.

Taylor Momsen

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

Taylor Swift

Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boy-centric.

Stanley Kunitz

In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.

Stanley Kunitz

The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn

Stanley Kunitz

How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?

Stacy London

Only buy things that make your heart sing. If I don't love it, I won't buy it.

Soren Kierkegaard

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

Soren Kierkegaard

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

Soren Kierkegaard

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

Soren Kierkegaard

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Soren Kierkegaard

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

Soren Kierkegaard

Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.

Stephen Vincent Benet

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

Stephenie Meyer

I knew the human exaggeration for sorrow-a broken heart.

Stephenie Meyer

After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?

Stephenie Meyer

Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.

Stephenie Meyer

Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life?