Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hernando Cortes

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

Hernando Cortes

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

Hesiod

...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.

Herodotus

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

Henry R. Luce

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

Henry Rollins

I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.

Helen McCrory

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

Helen Rowland

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Helen Rowland

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

Heinrich Heine

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

Heinrich Heine

In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

Heinrich Heine

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Heinrich Heine

If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.

Heinrich Heine

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

Heinrich Heine

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Heather O'Neill

From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.

Hideo Kojima

When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.

Hilary Duff

And it only matters how true you are. Be true to yourself and follow your heart.

Hilary Mantel

God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

Hilary Mantel

[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

Hilary Mantel

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap...

Hilaire Belloc

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

Hilaire Belloc

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

Hilaire Belloc

The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.

Henry Williamson

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

Heraclitus

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Henry Ward Beecher

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!

Henry Ward Beecher

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.