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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."


"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."


"There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart."


"One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors."


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


"I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing."


"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."


"To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches."


"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."


"I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world."


"At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance."


"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it."


"This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient."


"The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it."


"I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart."


"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."


"This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart."


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


"Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart."


"For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down."


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


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


"Not really, and actually my cholesterol was 190 when I had the heart attack. 190, which isn't that high. I took it down to about 130 and it's probably about 140 or 145 now."


"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."


"I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins."
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