Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Liu

At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that there is no greater citizen than she who sacrifices; and that there is no greater measure of worth than contribution. These are values we can be proud of. After all, there is no moral system or religion on earth where the guiding ethic is grab more for yourself.

Emma McLaughlin

To all the guys who broke our hearts - we wouldn't appreciate what we have today without you.

Emmanuel Jal

A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.

Emmanuel Jal

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

Emmanuelle Beart

Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.

Emma Stone

This is life. Our bodies change. Our minds change. Our hearts change. Things are always evolving. I hope we can be supportive of each other and try to really have each other's backs, especially when we don't know the whole story.

Emma Thompson

I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love is, in a way.

Emma Goldman

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

Emma Goldman

It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.

John James Audubon

My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight...

John Irving

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

John Irving

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

John Irving

My brain is sending poison to my heart.

John Heywood

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

John Henry Newman

The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

John Henry Newman

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

John Hagee

A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.

John Friend

Everybody naturally wants to abide in that highest frequency of the heart, and it is often through intimate relationships that we are able to fully know this divine love within ourselves. These close relationships provide us not only with the experience of the highest joy and love in life, but also offer the opportunity for profound self-awareness, because each relationship mirrors both our bright attributes and our shadow sides.

John Friend

We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through us, longing to share itself with another.

John Friend

Creatively express your love through your life. Love is expressed through our hearts, minds, and bodies.

John Friend

What does everybody want deep in their hearts? Love.

John Frusciante

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

John F. Kerry

Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.

John Donne

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

John Dos Passos

I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal he has. I think that even the bitterest satirist, even a man like Swift, was probably rather an optimist at heart.

John Donne

Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

John Donne

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

John Donne

The day breaks not, it is my heart.

John Donne

Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, then idiot with none.

John Eldredge

Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God... [The heart] is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.

John Eldredge

My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him...

John Eldredge

Story is the language of the heart.

John Eldredge

There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey . . . something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.