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Heart Quotes


"Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier."


"No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart."


"If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart."


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."


"I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken."


"I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his 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."


"Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him."


"It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters."


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


"Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart."


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


"The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity."


"The decision I've made has come from my heart. That's me, to follow my heart."


"The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play."


"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."


"Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is."


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


"In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer."
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