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Heart Quotes


"Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart."


"You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart."


"When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken."


"Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart."


"No attempt 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."


"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."


"Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have."


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


"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."


"I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart."


"One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute."


"Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him."


"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt."


"I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart."


"Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?"


"I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was."


"In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke."


"Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart."


"I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is."


"Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?"


"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas."


"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 create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."


"There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!"


"The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close."


"And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart."


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


"Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute."
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