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Heart Quotes


"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."


"After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me."


"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody."


"No man with a touch of heart disease should ever back his mounts."


"But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?"


"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal."


"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment."


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


"Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart."


"I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it."


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


"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."


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


"When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing."


"No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place."


"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."


"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."


"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."


"The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart."


"It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others."


"I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure."


"The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else."


"It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law."


"It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body."


"My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling."


"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."
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