Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Savage Landor

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

Walter Savage Landor

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

Walter Savage Landor

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

Walter Savage Landor

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

Walter Savage Landor

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Scott

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

Walter Scott

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Walter Scott

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.

Walter Scott

...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

Walter Scott

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

Walter Scott

The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!

Walter Scott

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

Walter Hagen

You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.

Walter Dean Myers

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

Yo-Yo Ma

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

Yo-Yo Ma

When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.

Yitzhak Rabin

Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - on, they should not be an afterthought, but they should be at the heart of a good Australian Government.

Yitzhak Rabin

For me, Jerusalem was united, will be under Israel sovereignty, will be the capital of Israel and the heart of the Jewish people.

Winston Churchill

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

Winston Churchill

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.

Winston Churchill

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Winston Churchill

No sky is heavy if the heart be light

Winston Churchill

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Winston Churchill

Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

Rebecca Solnit

Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.

Rebecca Solnit

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

Rick Yancey

He spreads his fingers over my heart, like he’s holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory he’s won fair and square.

Rick Warren

Let your broken heart create an open heart

Rick Warren

For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can't hold any back.

Rick Warren

You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don’t edge others out, you don’t demand your rights, and you aren’t self-serving when you’re surrendered.

Rick Warren

I'm a pastor of a local church. I'm not a televangelist. I've never had a televised program. I'm a pastor. A pastor's role is to care and comfort, encourage, teach, and everything that I do, even when I meet with world leaders, is from a pastor's heart.

Rick Warren

The heart of the issue is an issue of the heart. And that's why I'm a pastor, not a politician. Because I think only - only God can change hearts. And only God can take the evil out. I don't think you can legislate the evil out of people.