Quotes on Heart

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

Author: Willie Aames

I acted my heart out.

Author: F. Abraham

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

Author: Charles Adams

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Author: John Adams

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Author: Richard Adams

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Author: Joseph Addison

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Author: Aeschylus

I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend.

Author: Lauren Alaina

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

Author: Josef Albers

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

Author: Archibald Alexander

Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.

Author: Archibald Alexander

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

Author: Jason Alexander

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Author: Fred Allen

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Author: James Allen

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.

Author: Rick Allen

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Author: Isabel Allende

She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

Author: William Allingham

The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

Author: Aaron Allston

I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas.

Author: Louie Anderson

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Author: Carlos Andrade

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Author: Maya Angelou

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Author: Maya Angelou

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

Author: Princess Anne

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

Author: Mary Antin

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Author: Pietro Aretino

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.

Author: Alexis Arguello

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

Author: Lance Armstrong

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.

Author: Rosanna Arquette

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

Author: Elizabeth Ashley

His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.

Author: Maurice Ashley

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

Author: Mary Astell

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

Author: Mary Astell

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

Author: Mackenzie Astin

I'm really a romantic at heart.

Author: Christopher Atkins

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Author: Saint Augustine

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Author: Saint Augustine

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

Author: Saint Augustine

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Author: Jane Austen

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

Author: Isaac Babel

Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.

Author: Erykah Badu

There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

Author: Bugs Baer

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

Author: Joanna Baillie

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

Author: Russell Baker

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

Author: Mikhail Bakunin

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

Author: Faith Baldwin

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Author: James Baldwin

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

Author: James Baldwin

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

Author: Tallulah Bankhead

Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

Author: Robert Barclay

Really, I don't see this heart-throb thing at all.

Author: Javier Bardem

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Author: Christiaan Barnard

He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.

Author: Richard Barnfield

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Author: Amelia Barr

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

Author: Roseanne Barr

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Author: Jacques Barzun

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.

Author: Jean Baudrillard

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Author: Thomas Bayly

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

Author: Xavier Becerra

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.

Author: Glenn Beck

The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

Author: Franz Beckenbauer

The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart.

Author: Boris Becker

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

Author: Victoria Beckham

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Author: Henry Beecher

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Author: Henry Beecher

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Author: Henry Beecher

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Author: Ludwig Beethoven

Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

Author: Kristen Bell

We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.

Author: Hans Berger

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Author: Louis Bernieres

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.

Author: Daniel Berrigan

The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.

Author: Henry Beston

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

Author: Mary Bethune

Springfield has always had a place in my heart.

Author: Buffalo Bill

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.

Author: Harry Blackmun

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Author: Hugh Blair

The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.

Author: Helena Blavatsky

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Author: Robert Bloch

How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?

Author: Orlando Bloom

The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

Author: Don Bluth

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Author: Louise Bogan

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

Author: Uwe Boll

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.

Author: Tommy Bond

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

Author: Giotto Bondone

The Internet's kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged.

Author: Sean Booth

But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I'll tell you, kiddo, if you don't do what your heart tells you, you'll never be real.

Author: Shirley Booth

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Author: Hal Borland

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

Author: Thomas Boston

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Author: Nadia Boulanger

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

Author: David Bowie

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Author: F. Bradley

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I'd know that I tried.

Author: Michelle Branch

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

Author: Sarah Breathnach

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.

Author: Sarah Breathnach

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

Author: Jeremy Brett

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

Author: Anne Bronte

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

Author: Anne Bronte

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Author: Emily Bronte

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

Author: Heywood Broun

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

Author: Dan Brown

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

Author: James Brown

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

Author: Louise Brown

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Author: H. Brown, Jr.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

Author: William Bryan

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

Author: John Buchan

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Author: Pearl Buck

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Author: Pearl Buck

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Author: Pearl Buck

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Author: Buddha

You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.

Author: Bill Budge

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Author: Lois Bujold

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

Author: Sitting Bull

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.

Author: John Bunyan

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

Author: John Bunyan

I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.

Author: Delta Burke

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Author: Edmund Burke

It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.

Author: Laura Bush

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

Author: Joseph Butler

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

Author: Robert Byrne

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Author: Lord Byron

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Author: Lord Byron

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Author: Abraham Cahan

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Author: Julia Cameron

I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.

Author: Alex Campbell

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

Author: Thomas Campbell

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Author: Albert Camus

The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

Author: Dyan Cannon

We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.

Author: Maria Cantwell

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

Author: George Carey

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

Author: George Carey

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

Author: Mariah Carey

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

Author: Vanessa Carlton

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Author: Andrew Carnegie

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Author: Dale Carnegie

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

Author: John Carre

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

Author: Angela Carter

I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality.

Author: Sydney Carter

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

Author: Pablo Casals

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

Author: Pablo Casals

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Author: Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

Author: Carlos Castenada

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

Author: Willa Cather

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

Author: Paul Celan

He has your finger, but I have your heart.

Author: Brian Celio