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Quotes About Hearts

Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!
~ William Shakespeare
Stemming it with hearts of controversy.
~ William Shakespeare
Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?
~ William Shakespeare
Some are obviously living in bondage. Others give the appearance that they have overcome such problems. But the fact remains that even if it is not apparent in a person's outward behavior, this is the true state of all our hearts.
~ William Wilberforce
Memories are a lot tougher than you might think. Just like the hearts that hold them.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
But as things got thinner, more full of holes, our hearts got thinner, too, diluted somehow. I suppose that kept things in balance.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The three of us, each paralyzed in his own silence, contemplate the horizon, which the dawn lights up with a thousand fires; and each of us knows for certain that the rising sun of this day, like all those that have gone before it, will be incapable of bringing sufficient light into the hearts of men.
~ Yasmina Khadra
I don't think anyone "finds" joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult
~ Dawna Markova
Learning is the ecstasy of life which keeps our hearts young and our minds sharp.
~ Debasish Mridha
Friendship is a poetry of life that is written in two hearts.
~ Debasish Mridha
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
~ Anna Godbersen, Splendor
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
~ Honore de Balzac
Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.
~ Anuj
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
~ Jean Rostand
Is it because the wild-wood passion still lingers in our hearts, because still in our minds the voice of Syrinx lingers in melancholy music, the music of regret and longing, that for most of us there is so potent a spell in running waters?" Fiona Macleod.
~ Jeanie Lang
High schools are, ultimately, a messy stew of hearts and hormones all swirling around together in the smallest possible space. Don't feel bad about not having gotten out of there with your dignity intact, because nobody did. Even dreamy Jordan Catalano will always have to live with the embarrassment of having mistakenly addressed Brian as 'Brain.
~ Jeff Alexander
A nation could choose to observe socialist tenets. Communism meant rigid government control—people had no choice other than to comply, and government mandate rather than personal accomplishment determined the course of their lives. Peoples Temple socialism was intended to change hearts through example, not coercion.
~ Jeff Guinn
The design of redemption is to exhibit the grace of God in such a manner as to fill all hearts with wonder and all lips with praise.
~ Elizabeth George
And love is always complicated. But still humans most try to love each other, darling. We must get out hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Children are uncivilized, so have a staggering power to harm, especially those people whose hearts need mending. In that house an unhappy child was too much rain on a high water table. I poured it on and the terrain liquefied.
~ Elizabeth Knox
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs upon surrounding scenes and objects," the other added, "and who ever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon? It is unfortunate. But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
~ Algernon Blackwood
It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.
~ Alison Croggon