Hearted Quotes - Page 2

• Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Running, Life Is Too Short, Connections

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• There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Horse, Passion, Vanity

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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• I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels

  Charlie Brooker

  Dog, Light, Rocks

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.320, Faber & Faber

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• I took a bite of cookie and chewed. “Hmmm,” I said, trying not to spit crumbs. “Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips, distinct flavor of brown sugar. A decent cookie, not spectacular. Still, a good-hearted cookie, not pretentious.” I turned to Fang. “What say you?” “It’s fine.” Some people just don’t have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

  James Patterson

  Sweet, People, Appreciate

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• It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

  Tom Stoppard

  Real, Light, Shining

  Tom Stoppard (1998). “The Invention of Love”, p.71, Grove Press

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• He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beautiful, Boys, Giving

  Louisa May Alcott, Barbara Steadman (1997). “Little Women Coloring Book”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Thinking, Asbestos, Vests

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.148, Courier Dover Publications

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• He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

  Jane Austen

  Selfish, Men, Cold Hearted

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.7

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• The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Strong, Women, Together

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• To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

  Louis C. K.

  Goal, Laughing, Connections

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• If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it.

  Megan Fox

  Light, People, Comedian

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• Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Encouragement, Laughter

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• I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

  Dolly Parton

  Needs, Tendencies, Bigs

  "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Black, Insane, Monsters

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers.

  Emma Watson

  Brother, Pairs, Warm Hearted

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• When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

  Debra Winger

  Funny, Life, Distance

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• I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now.

  Sara Teasdale

  Suicide, Rain, Suicidal

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.

  Danielle Steel

  Broken, Broken Hearted, Gone

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• Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Good Life, Rain, Coffee

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Love, Beautiful, Gay

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR™S TALES (Holiday Classics Series): Including Anne Shirley Series”, p.512, e-artnow

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• You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

  Lionel Shriver

  Mistake, Like Her, Innocence

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.273, Profile Books

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• She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Thinking, Laughing

  Jane Austen (1864). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.17

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• We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Thinking, Blessing

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Believe, Kind, Individual

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.164, Macmillan

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• The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted

  Fred Rogers

  Broken, Kingdoms, Kingdom Of God

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