Heart Quotes - Page 36

• What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Joy, What If

  Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1905). “The Story of My Life”

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• There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

  Paul Bourget

  Happiness, Mean, Joy

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• Veracity is the heart of morality.

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Honesty, Morality

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Men, Law

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.112, Aristotle

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• Ground Zero mosque supporters, doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours, throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.

  Sarah Palin

  Zero, Silly, Political

  "Today Show Highlights Sarah Palin's 'Refudiate,' Skipped Biden Gaffe". "Today Show" with Peter Alexander, www.newsbusters.org. July 20, 2010.

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• A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

  Alexander Pope

  Sarcastic, Brain, Feathers

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 2, l. 44

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• You are so pure in mind and heart,
  In aspect, too, so mild,
  I wonder that you ever could
  Implant your wife with child.

  Martial

  Sarcastic, Children, Wife

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• The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Children, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.287, Wildside Press LLC

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• Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ.

  George Washington

  Bible, God, Religious

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• While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable.

  George Washington

  Religious, Freedom, Men

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.376

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• And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine for there is no creature so little or so despised but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Religious, Book, Mirrors

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• Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

  Aristotle

  Opinion

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Different Opinions, May, Sides

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Patriotic, Law

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

  Thomas Browne

  Keys, Locks

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.259

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• The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Revenge, Men, Heaven

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• Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.

  Tennessee Williams

  Love, Compassion, Hands

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

  Moliere

  Women, Believe, Ambition

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• Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

  Ovid

  Girl, Women, Charm

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.100, Indiana University Press

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• Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Real, Expression

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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• A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religious, Names, Long

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world's ordinary miracles. No mind or heart hobbles. No analyzing or explaining. No questing for logic. No promises. No goals. No relationships. No worry. One is completely open to whatever drama may unfold.

  Diane Ackerman

  Fun, Pain, Drama

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.23, Vintage

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• (Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as "Red cars can jump all others," then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Fun, Creativity

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• Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Loyalty, Mean, Sacrifice

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.142, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Selfish, Love Is, Poverty

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