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Heart Quotes


"I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal."


"Everyone loves Disney, it just has a special place in everyone's heart."


"Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight."


"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."


"The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies."


"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."


"We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity."


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


"The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant."


"You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart."


"That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me."


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


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


"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."


"Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything."


"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame."


"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."


"I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything."


"It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by."


"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."


"Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue."


"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 has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's."


"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."


"In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world."


"Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in."


"One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart."


"Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it."


"Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me."


"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?"
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