Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred de Vigny

Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.

Alfred de Vigny

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

Alfred de Vigny

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

Alfred de Vigny

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

Alfred de Musset

The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.

Alfred de Musset

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

Alfred de Musset

If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart

Alfred de Musset

The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine

Alfred de Musset

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

Alfre Woodard

I was like, wait a minute. When I hear my sisters' names, I want to have a joyful feeling in my heart about it.

Alfred Austin

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Alfred Adler

Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.

Alfred Adler

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Angela Carter

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

Angela Carter

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

Andrew Jackson

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.

Amy Smart

I do feel like I'm a tomboy at heart, so I have an easy time working with guys.

Amy Tan

Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.

Amy Tan

Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

Amy Tan

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

Amity Gaige

To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.

Anthony Bourdain

There are chefs who are spectacular technicians, and often their food is worth eating once or twice, but if there's no heart in it, if there's no personality in it, it's not something you want to go back for. But heart without any skill at all? All the heart in the world ain't gonna help you if you can't peel an onion, or if you don't understand how to apply heat properly. A well-done steak is a well-done steak.

Andy Serkis

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.

Andy Rooney

I've learned... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

Andy Stanley

[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.

Andy Stanley

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

Andy Stanley

For reasons known only to him, God has chosen to work through men and women who are willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the "thing" he has placed in their hearts to do. If God bas birthed a vision in you, it is only a matter of time until you will come upon the precipice of sacrifice.

Andy Stanley

Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.

Andy Stanley

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

Andy Stanley

Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.

Andy Stanley

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

Andy Stanley

The church must capture and keep the minds and hearts of students.

Andy Stanley

Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.