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Heart Quotes


"I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head."


"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."


"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things."


"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."


"Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart."



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


"I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer."


"But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart."


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


"It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below."


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



"Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains."


"I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs."


"I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart."


"Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart."



"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die."


"All grand thoughts come from the heart."


"I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive."



"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart."


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


"The market controls everything, but the market has no heart."


"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart."



"This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart."


"I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent."


"If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart."
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