Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hannah More

People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart.

Hannah More

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

Hannah More

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

Hannah More

The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.

Hannah More

Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

Hannah More

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

Guy Verhofstadt

We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

Guy Kawasaki

Enchantment is the purest form of sales. Enchantment is all about changing people's hearts, minds and actions because you provide them a vision or a way to do things better. The difference between enchantment and simple sales is that with enchantment you have the other person's best interests at heart, too.

Greg Fitzsimmons

When you're not 21, it's great to drink because you're not allowed to. You're a rebel: you gotta get a fake I.D., you gotta find a place to drink it, you gotta sneak in drunk. And if you get away with all that, you're laying in bed, your heart's pounding, you got vomit on your chin. You're like, 'I'm a rebel!' And you are. You're cool.

Greg Gutfeld

I guess if your heart's in the right place, the trash can go anywhere.

Greg Gutfeld

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

Glenn Greenwald

The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.

Ginni Rometty

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

Ginger Rogers

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

Gerry Spence

There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.

Harry Crews

God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car -- out of pure malevolence no doubt -- changed the history of the world by reinventing man.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I always knew I wanted to act, but my parents neverencouraged me. If I was talentless, they didn't want me to be heartbroken.

Gwyneth Paltrow

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

Gregory Bateson

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

He's the heart and soul of this team, a thoroughbred leader.

Emily Dickinson

Hope it strange invention --/ A Patent of the Heart --/ In unremitting action/ Yet never wearing out.

He's our leader, he's the heart and soul of our team. For him to sit those type of minutes, it hurt us. ... I wish it could have turned out the other way, but there were no losers.

Bill Self

I don't know if one player spurred it (team chemistry) on more than others, but I do think Russell Robinson, from start to finish, has been the heart and soul of our team.

I didn't think he would ever play again. And for him to be back here playing, that shows his heart and dedication.

Bobby Robson

I didn't take the Hearts job for personal reasons.

Imran Khan

Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

Imran Khan

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

Jack Layton

If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.

Jack LaLanne

If you're tired and pooped out all the time, do you have love and compassion in your heart for your fellow man? You don't even like yourself!

Jack Kornfield

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

Jack Kornfield

In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

Jack Kornfield

Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.

Jack Kornfield

Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.