Hearts Quotes - page 5

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
What a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. View quote
Robert E. Lee
Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools. View quote
John Ruskin
Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts. View quote
Fatimah
We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button reading "positive attitude” protrudes from our hearts, and no finger can coerce positivity into immediate action by a single and painless pressing. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god? View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well. View quote
Ramakrishna
How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally... (Louisa May Alcott)
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald
Because we want the same happiness We keep carving the same wounds onto our hearts. Forever, forever So I won't forget you I call you over and over again Please don't cry any more I won't leave you alone. View quote
Ayumi Hamasaki
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. View quote
Goldie Hawn
We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside... Inside. View quote
Jim Henson
I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand Another serenader and another long haired band Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts, But I know the game, you'll forget my name, And I won't be here in another year If I don't stay on the charts. View quote
Billy Joel
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. View quote
Joseph Addison
We carry a new world in our hearts. That world is growing every minute. View quote
Buenaventura Durruti
Friendship is the next Pleasure we may hope for: And where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue. View quote
William Penn
To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep in our hearts that if anyone truly got to know us, they'd truly get to love us - or at least know why we're the way we are. The problem in life, maybe the central problem, is that so few people ever seem to have sufficient curiosity to do the job on us that we know we deserve. View quote
Roger Ebert
Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins. View quote
Orson Scott Card
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are. ... These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths... View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Quick-loving hearts... may quickly loathe. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning