Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Joe Vitale

You know, when everybody starts to live from their heart, and go for what they want, they don't go for the same things. That's the beauty of this. We don't all want BMWs. We don't all want the same person. We don't all want the same experiences. We don't all want the same clothing. We don't all want ..... fill in the blank

Joe Torre

Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared

Joe Torre

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones. I learned that the whole is not always the sum of its parts: that what you put in doesnt always match what you get out.

Jo Coudert

Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.

Jimmy Carter

The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.

Jimmy Carter

I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

Jimmy Carter

I've committed adultery in my heart.

John C. Reilly

I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.

John C. Maxwell

There’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.

James Taylor

The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

James Smith

Moira sacrificed all that she had and all the richness of life that still lay in front of her in order to save just one more person. Moira was killed when the south tower collapsed ... Today, we choose to remember and share the joy Moira brought to all of us, and we vow that she will always live in our hearts.

James Merrill

The day is breaking someone else's heart.

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.

Emily Dickinson

Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

Emily Dickinson

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

Emanuel Ungaro

A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart.

Elliott Smith

The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

Edward Dahlberg

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

Edward de Bono

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

Edith Hamilton

Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)

Eddie Griffin

Actually it broke my heart to hear that we were going to have to part ways, ... It's a business and they had to do what they had to do.

Holly Black

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.

Holly Black

A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

Hermann Hesse

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.