I gravitate towards roles where women find strength in very difficult, uncompromising situations but maintain clarity in mind, discipline at heart, and a certain strength in spirit.
~ Michelle Yeoh
My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
~ Yair Lapid
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I reserve the right to survey the national political landscape for candidates at all levels who reflect a proper understanding of our national security, economic security, and family security - the ideals of social conservation, the heart and strength of our country.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.
~ Nicole Ari Parker
If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers.
~ George Müller
God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.
~ Willie Aames
Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.
~ Andrea Bocelli
What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
~ Giuseppe Garibaldi
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
~ Mary Shelley
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
~ Tecumseh
When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'
~ Mickey Rourke
Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.
~ Michael Greger
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.
~ John Ortberg
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
~ Daryl Hall
I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.
~ Mike Huckabee
My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.
~ Nicola Sturgeon
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
~ Honoré De Balzac
I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.
~ Christine Gregoire
Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
~ Macklemore
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
~ William Wordsworth
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.
~ Ray Charles
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
~ Fredric Jameson
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.
~ Justin Bieber
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
~ Andres Segovia
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
~ Pablo Casals
Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.
~ Koko Taylor
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
~ Khalil Gibran
When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.
~ Greg Lake
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
~ Damon Albarn
Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.
~ Blake Shelton
Everyone one-on-one will be completely honest about the music that they listen to. But then you get into a group situation, and then it's the cool/uncool debate. I have really done my very best to reinforce the very fact that your heart knows better than your head does what you like when it comes to music and what not.
~ Corey Taylor
I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.
~ John Grant
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
~ John Philip Sousa
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
~ Maria Callas
