Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saul Alinsky

Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.

Saul Alinsky

The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.

Saul Bellow

In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)

Sarah Hall

At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have travelled well, closed up in its cavity, quivering and gnawing at the bars of your ribcage during the commute. It might be tracking north now, along edgelands, past spoil-heaps and stands of pylons, under motorway passes, back to the higher ground. Back to him.

Sarah Dessen

But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side

Sarah Dessen

When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.

Sarah Dessen

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

Sarah Dessen

I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

Sarah Dessen

When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.

Sarah Dessen

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

Sarah Dessen

But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?

Sarah Dessen

I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

Sarah Dessen

If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.

Sarah Dessen

Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once....

Sarah Dessen

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

Sandra Bullock

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.

Sandra Bullock

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

Roselyn Sanchez

I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

My hearts not been in it this year [2005], and I've not been playing well, but I keep on winning.

Rohit Sharma

There is a place deep inside every single on of our hearts that knows all the answers to our biggest questions.

Roland Barthes

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

Roger Scruton

Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement.

Roger Bannister

It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.

Roger Ebert

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

Rod McKuen

May your hand be full for always if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again with love. May your soul be lost by you only to be found by God.

Rod Stewart

You're in my heart, you're in my soul. You'll be my breath, should I grow old.

Rod Stewart

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.

Roberto Alomar

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

Robert Townsend

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Robert Sheckley

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

Robert Schwentke

I have a family. I'm married. I'm very, very happy. I wanted to make a movie for my wife and a movie that speaks to what it is to be in a long term, very, very committed relationship because at the heart that's really what it is.

Robert Schumann

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

Robert Schumann

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.