Hearted Quotes - Page 13

• Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Fire, Soul

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.244

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• How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.

  Jay Leno

  Night, Government, Idols

  "The Tonight Show", February 1, 2006.

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• The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, César Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the divine by the necessity of earning their daily bread. But such clercs are inevitably rare. The rule is that the living creature condemned to struggle for life turns to practical passions, and thence to the sanctifying of those passions.

  Julien Benda

  Beautiful, Struggle, Passion

  "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 159, 1927.

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• As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.

  Eden Phillpotts

  Book, Writing, Self

  Eden Phillpotts (1918). “A Shadow Passes”

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• Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.

  Anthony Trollope

  Rome, Motto, Worst

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.446

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• Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.

  Harriet Lerner

  Spiritual, Giving, Listening

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• And so the blasts of calumny, howl they ever so fiercely over the good man's head, contribute to his juster appreciation and to his wider fame. Preserve only a good conscience toward God, and a loving purpose toward your fellow men, and you need not wince nor tremble, though the pack of the spaniel-hearted hounds snarl at your heels.

  William Morley Punshon

  Appreciation, Men, Good Man

  William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.31, Adam, Stevenson

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• It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Nice, Character, Ethnicity

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• Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

  Dani Shapiro

  Wise, Book, Bigs

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• The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation.

  Frank Knight

  Jobs, Exercise, People

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• Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

  Paul Banks

  Broken, Broken Hearted

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• To all the broken-hearted and anyone feeling sad, may your hearts heal and may you feel happy in your lives.Flutter as the butterflies do.

  Krystal

  Heart, Butterfly, Broken

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• They the royal-hearted women are
  Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace
  For needy suffering lives in lowliest place,
  Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile,
  The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.

  George Eliot

  Women, Grace, Suffering

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.226

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• People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Thinking, Nba

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• A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Light, Strange, Consideration

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.138, Verso

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• Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.

  Meher Baba

  Love, Love And Forgiveness, Faint Hearted

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• God...made childhood joyous, full of life, bubbling over with laughter, playful, bright and sunny. We should put into their childhood days just as much sunshine and gladness, just as much cheerful pleasure as possible. Pour in the sunshine about them in youth. Let them be happy, encourage all innocent joy, provide pleasant games for them, romp and play with them; be a child again among them. Then God's blessing will come upon your home, and your children will grow up sunny-hearted, gentle, affectionate, joyous themselves and joy-bearers to the world.

  J.R. Miller

  Laughter, Children, Growing Up

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• The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.

  Hal Porter

  Art, Ice Cream, Self

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• And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Gratitude, Father

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Give me Your eyes for just one second, Give me Your eyes so I can see, Everything that I keep missing, Give me Your love for humanity, Give me Your arms for the broken-hearted, The ones that are far beyond my reach, Give me Your heart for the ones forgotten, Give me Your eyes so I can see

  Brandon Heath

  Heart, Eye, Broken

  Song: Give Me Your Eyes, Album: What If We, 2008

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• Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost....May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.

  Barack Obama

  Brother, Children, Memories

  "Children and adults gunned down in Connecticut school massacre". news.blogs.cnn.com. December 14, 2012.

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• What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the latter case a good will, in the former an evil one. It springs also from the thoughts, in the former case evil thoughts, in the latter from the opposite; and similarly from actions, in the former case actions contrary to God, in the latter godly ones... it is by free choice of the will that every person either attains compunction and humility, or else becomes hard-hearted and proud.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Spring, Humility

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• Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Cities, San Francisco, Friendly

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• Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Rain, Sadness, Sunshine

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• The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

  Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

  Heavy Heart, Way, Amusing

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