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Heart Quotes



"A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart."


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


"The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars."


"In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable."


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


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


"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."


"We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too."



"Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf."


"The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series."


"My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes."


"It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur."



"Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred."



"Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will."



"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."


"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."


"If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!"


"When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks."


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


"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks."


"Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that."


"Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there."


"After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make."


"When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains."


"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."


"The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart."


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


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


"Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited."


"Great thoughts always come from the heart."


"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."


"Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community."



"I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few."
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