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Heart Quotes


"The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion."


"I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win."


"What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart."


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


"Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding."


"The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter."


"The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression."


"Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it."


"I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't."


"My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true."


"I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have."


"I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer."


"I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book."


"With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart."


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


"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."


"Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred."


"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."


"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."


"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child."


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


"It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise."


"Wealth and want equally harden the human heart."


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


"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."
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