Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Eldredge

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

John Eldredge

In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

John Eldredge

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

John Dryden

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.

John Lyly

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

John Lydon

I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her.

John Banville

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

Jimmy Buffett

I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

Joanna Baillie

If my heart were not light, I would die.

Tommy Amaker

They rammed it down our throats the first part of the game. But the second half, our veterans really showed something. We showed some heart and toughness.

Roger Clemens

There's a big part of my heart that's missing now with my mother gone, ... I knew I pitched for her, but I didn't realize how much I did that.

Bonnie Tyler

It's a heartacheNothing but a heartacheHits you when it's too lateHits you when you're down

Bonnie Tyler

It's a heartache Nothing but a heartache Hits you when it's too late Hits you when you're down

They probably went in it thinking they were going to win and we showed them that we have a lot of heart too.

Djuna Barnes

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

Djuna Barnes

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

David Suzuki

Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is required for governments and business to be considered successful. This is a form of insanity. Economics is at the heart of our destructive ways and our faith in it has blinded us

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Charles Caleb Colton

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

Charles Dickens

We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.

Charles Dickens

He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.

Charles Simmons

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Charles Spurgeon

Come my, heart, up and away!

Charles Spurgeon

An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.

Charles Spurgeon

When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.

Charles Spurgeon

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

Alan Watts

We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. It is, however, not an end but an inception, for now begins the glorious pursuit, the heart's happy exploration of the infinite riches of the Godhead.