Heart Quotes

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.

There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. "In the Mood for Love," though, reached all the way to my belly.

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.