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Heart Quotes


"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance."


"When preparing to climb a mountain - pack a light heart."


"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart."


"Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants."


"It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut."


"What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart."


"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."


"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy."


"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."


"During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland."


"My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player."


"Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!"


"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."


"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."


"I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind."


"Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds."


"I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart."


"My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!"


"O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams."


"He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires."


"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."


"I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent."


"The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins."


"It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur."


"A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity."


"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless."


"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?"
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