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Heart Quotes


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


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


"The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest."


"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."


"Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?"


"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."


"When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken."


"According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world."


"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."


"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."


"But the two of them together, broke my heart. Olympia and Peter, those scenes... When they're kissing in their 20s and then kissing in their 70s, that's what it is. And they had never met five minutes before they shot those scenes."


"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."


"The heart is forever making the head its fool."


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


"Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited."


"All grand thoughts come from the heart."


"The true character of ministry is a servants heart."


"Great thoughts always come from the heart."


"The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart."


"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."


"I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush."


"Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart."


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


"It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of 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."


"He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within."


"No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart."
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