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Heart Quotes


"I will never have a heart attack. I give them."


"A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity."


"After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me."


"A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again."


"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal."


"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers."


"I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush."


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


"The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers."



"To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit."


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


"A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness."


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


"I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world."


"Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart."


"Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart."


"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."


"I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom."


"I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart."



"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands."


"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."
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