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Heart Quotes


"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"


"I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh."


"You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you."



"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline."



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


"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations."



"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."


"You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart."



"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas."


"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."



"How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart."



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


"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart."



"My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal."


"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."



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


"When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it."


"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."


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


"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."



"The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me."


"We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions."


"The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own."


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


"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."
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