Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Scott

I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest, my heart beating even though I wished it wasn't.

Elizabeth Taylor

The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

Elizabeth I

I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart

Antonio Banderas

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

Avi

The more men see of the world, the bigger their hearts

Mel Brooks

Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.

Mel Brooks

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.

A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.

I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.

Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

Mary Morrissey

To learn to live from the heart it doesn't just change our feeling about life, it actually changes our life.

Mary Pickford

I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast and let his heart's blood turn the white rose red. Maybe this sounds very sentimental, but for anybody who has loved a career as much as I've loved mine, there can be no short cuts.

Mary Oliver

But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?

Mary Oliver

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

Mary Oliver

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.

Mary Oliver

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

Mary Oliver

Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

Marty Stuart

There's the chart -- and there's the heart. And it's great when they both line up. But you better follow your heart, 'cause that's where it's at.

Martin Buber

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.

Martin Buber

You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.

Martin Amis

You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?

Pope Benedict XVI

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.

Pope Benedict XVI

God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love.

Pope Benedict XVI

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

Pope Benedict XVI

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

Pope John Paul II

Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart

Pope John Paul II

How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.

Pope John Paul II

Hands are the heart's landscape.