Heart Quotes

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

~ Ninon De L'enclos

Small unit autonomy, breaking the right rules, cultural influence, and relationship building has always been the heart Special Operations. Something must be done to ensure these are not lost to the big machine of SOCOM.

~ Brandon Webb

Nineteen was the first time I really had a real relationship, really fell in love, really had my heart broken, really broke her heart, and sex meant something a little bit different.

~ Ro James

In any relationship, even when it came to my relationship with Usher, when it was time to make a move, I had to do that. I don't care how much my heart was hurting, sometimes you're just supposed to be with people for a reason, and it's not always a lifetime. Even if you want it to be, it just doesn't work out that way.

~ Rozonda Thomas

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

~ Maya Angelou

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

~ Andre Rieu

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

~ Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

~ William Hazlitt

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

~ Alain De Botton

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

~ Seamus Heaney

I think of myself as an ambassador of the arts. In my heart of hearts, I know the world would be a more peaceful, tender place if we were more moved by the poetry around us.

~ Tim Seibles

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

~ Chief Joseph

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

~ Thomas Fuller

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

~ Matthew Prior

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

~ Ellie Goulding

I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

~ Naftali Bennett

I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

~ Tasha Smith

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

~ Keith Miller

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

~ Barbara De Angelis

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.

~ Blanche Lincoln

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

~ Gene Tunney

Never, ever exercise in front of a TV or while reading. You lose 50 percent of the benefit of the exercise by not hearing and feeling your heart rate, your sweat and the pain levels that need to be encountered in fitness training.

~ Kevin R. Stone

For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.

~ Yami Gautam

Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!

~ Candice Olson

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

~ Rebecca Solnit

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

~ Freda Adler

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

~ Josiah Royce

We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.

~ Donald Trump

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

~ Bear Grylls

Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.

~ Barbara Corcoran

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

~ Miriam Makeba

A heart makes a good home for the friend.

~ Yunus Emre

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

~ Lydia M. Child

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

~ Eliza Cook

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

~ Willie Morris

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

~ Pearl S. Buck

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Connected to the collective heart, you can be certain in every cell of your being that you are never alone, and you will experience the grace, guidance and ease that comes when you are one with all there is.

~ Debbie Ford

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

~ Jeremy Taylor