Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel de Cervantes

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

Miguel de Cervantes

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Miguel de Cervantes

It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.

Miguel de Cervantes

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

Miguel de Cervantes

A shy face is better than a forward heart.

Miguel de Cervantes

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

Miguel de Cervantes

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

Neil Gaiman

Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.

Neil Gaiman

I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

Neil Gaiman

How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.

Neil Gaiman

And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and and playing guitar at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow

Neil Gaiman

It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

Neil Gaiman

You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.

Neil Gaiman

He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do. He wondered if he should kiss her. He wondered if he wanted to kiss her, and he realized that he truly didn't know.

Neil Gaiman

There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.

Neil Gaiman

We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home." Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart.

John Muir

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

John Wesley

For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

John Stott

No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.

Marie Lu

To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will happen to those you love. Think of the possibilities. Does your heart clench with each thought? That, my friend, is love. And love enslaves us all, for you cannot have love without fear.

Theodore Parker

To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.

Theodore Roethke

The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.

Theodore Roethke

A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.

Theodore Roethke

I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.

Theodore Roosevelt

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to say to you, accept it in such a spirit.

Theodore Roosevelt

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Theodore L. Cuyler

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.

Thaddeus Stevens

Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.

Terry Jones

Wild Thing made their hearts sing. But he couldn't top everything.

Terry McMillan

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

Terry McMillan

We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.

Margaret Mitchell

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

Margaret Mitchell

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.