Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephenie Meyer

After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?

Rick Riordan

Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo.

Tana French

Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting to know what happened to her hamster, you develop an instant belief in anything that dissolves some of the heartbreak off her face.

Tamora Pierce

My heart bleeds buttermilk. -Daine

Tamora Pierce

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

Tamora Pierce

Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man hadn’t died of a heart attack. Instead he seemed to thrive on disaster and finding people seated in the wrong places.

Taiye Selasi

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

Takashi Murakami

The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

Tad Williams

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

Tablo

My heart was closed. Cold. I was self-conscious and cynical.

Tacitus

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

Sylvia Plath

O heart, such disorganization!

Sylvia Plath

There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart - It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge, For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.

Sylvia Plath

What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?

Sylvia Plath

Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.

Sylvia Plath

And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.

Sylvia Plath

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?

Sylvia Plath

Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream

Sylvia Plath

I hurl my heart to halt his pace.

Sylvia Plath

Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.

Sylvia Plath

It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.

Sylvia Plath

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

Sylvia Plath

Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?

Sylvia Plath

I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key; in his eye's darkroom I can see my X-rayed heart, dissected body: I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard s study.

Swoosie Kurtz

My heart was beating out of my chest.

Swami Vivekananda

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.

Swami Vivekananda

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

Swami Vivekananda

The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss. What fear and anxiety have I?

Swami Vivekananda

Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.

Swami Vivekananda

Love makes no distinction between man and man, between an Aryan and a Mlechchha, between a Brâhmana and a Pariah, nor even between a man and a woman. Love makes the whole universe as one's own home. True progress is slow but sure. Work among those young men who can devote heart and soul to this one duty - the duty of raising the masses of India. Awake them, unite them, and inspire them with this spirit of renunciation; it depends wholly on the young people of India.

Rosanne Cash

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

Rollo May

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.