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Heart Quotes

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

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

Victoria Woodhull, American Activist

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"This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern."

"This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern."

Barbara Deming, American Author

Heart, Concern, Pressure

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

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

Marc Chagall, French Artist

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"They have a right to censure that have a heart to help."

"They have a right to censure that have a heart to help."

William Penn, English Leader

Heart, Censure, Help, Right

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"Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion."

"Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion."

Kevin Mitnick, American Celebrity

Heart, Fear, Intention

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"And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya!"

"And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya!"

Julius Rosenberg, American Criminal

Heart, Act, Contempt, Court

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"My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research."

"My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research."

Renny Harlin, Finnish Director

Heart, Film, First, Job

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

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

Earl Warren, American Judge

Heart, Expression

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"How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?"

"How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?"

Orlando Bloom, English Actor

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"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."

"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."

Washington Irving, American Writer

Heart, Memory, Sun

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"As long as your heart beats, one is never too old."

"As long as your heart beats, one is never too old."

Compay Segundo, Cuban Musician

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"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."

"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."

Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

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"Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them."

"Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them."

Louise Bogan, American Poet

Heart, Feeling, Innocence, Violence

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"I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question."

"I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question."

Jessica Hahn, American Celebrity

Heart, Mind, Question, Will

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"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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"His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do."

"His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do."

Maurice Ashley, Jamaican Celebrity

Heart, Positive, Opinion, Prison

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"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!"

"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!"

Kevin Spacey, American Actor

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"Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow."

"Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow."

Sarah Ban Breathnach, American Author

Heart, Day, Grace, Spiritual

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"A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy."

"A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Heart, Joy, Kindness

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"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."

"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."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Heart, Childhood, Sorrow

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

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

Murray Walker, English Entertainer

Heart, State, Tension

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"Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact."

"Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact."

Uwe Boll, German Director

Heart, Actors, America

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

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

Meg Whitman, American Businessman

Heart, Community

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"I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die."

"I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die."

Eldridge Cleaver, American Activist

Heart, Communism, Day

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

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

Gloria Estefan, American Musician

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"It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."

"It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."

Golda Meir, Israeli Leader

Heart, Accident, Public

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"Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart."

"Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart."

Krist Novoselic, American Musician

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

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

Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary

Heart, Intellect, Man

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"When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills."

"When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills."

Kate Chopin, American Author

Heart, Disease, Doctors, Joy

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"No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart."

"No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart."

Martin Sheen, American Actor

Heart, Despair, May, Military

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"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist."

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist."

Louis Nizer, English Lawyer

Heart, Artist, Man

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"I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity."

"I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity."

Melissa Etheridge, American Musician

Heart, Strength, Diversity, Nation

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"How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart."

"How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart."

Eliza Cook, English Poet

Heart, Memory, Old

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"It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises."

"It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises."

Chief Joseph, American Leader

Heart, Promises, Words

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"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."

"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."

Edward Gibbon, English Historian

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"All the windows of my heart I open to the day."

"All the windows of my heart I open to the day."

John Greenleaf Whittier, American Poet

Heart, Day, Open, Windows

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

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

Jean Racine, French Dramatist

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"I have learnt a lot about my body since my heart attack. I don't drink as much now as before."

"I have learnt a lot about my body since my heart attack. I don't drink as much now as before."

Gerard Depardieu, French Actor

Heart, Body, Now

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"Our heart always transcends us."

"Our heart always transcends us."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Heart, Human, Emotion, Love

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"If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all."

"If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all."

Elizabeth I, English Royalty

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"Rocky Marciano had such guts and heart. He was something special."

"Rocky Marciano had such guts and heart. He was something special."

Robert Goulet, American Musician

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"Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do."

"Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do."

Jennifer Aniston, American Actress

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

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

Evander Holyfield, American Athlete

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

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

Thomas More, English Author

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"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."

"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."

Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist

Heart, Day, English, First

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

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

Junius, Roman Satirist

Heart, Understanding

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

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

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart."

"The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart."

Georg Trakl, Austrian Poet

Heart, Eyes, Gold, Night

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

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

Paul Celan, Romanian Poet

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"I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more."

"I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more."

Danica Patrick, American Celebrity

Heart, Nothing, Want

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