Top 1200 Great Hearts Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.

Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.

What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

I will say, I'm a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool.

Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.

Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

In football, in any sport, communication is really key. So if you want to be a great teammate, a great team and a great player, then communication is very important.

Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Great stories and acting always win the day. If the story behind the scares is dramatic and the filmmaking is great, it works. If those things aren't great and the scares are secondary, it doesn't.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.

If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Forces can bend heads, but not minds.

People's hearts can't be seen by the naked eye. But it doesn't matter, because you are not alone!

I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost well.

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

I've never stolen anything in my life, except maybe a couple hearts here and there.

I always say I have two hearts - one beats for Poland and the other for Germany.

Crosby is a great player, but I'd have to say Ovechkin, who is also a great player but doesn't have the same kind of support, and who does something great on almost every shift.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

The early '90s was the best time for hip-hop. The Cube's, the Snoop's, the Dre's - that was a golden time with great music, great albums, great groups, everything.

I'm very fortunate to work with a great group of guys that are great coaches, great motivators, excited about what they do, have a lot of enthusiasm and are excellent coaches.

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

I had beautiful years with Southampton - great club, great people, great supporters - and I'm very proud of my four years.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts.

There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.

Our hearts lie. Something can 'feel' right and be completely wrong.

Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.

To me, a great drummer isn't always about somebody with chops who can shred. A great drummer is someone who is part of a great band.

Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

Great brands and great businesses have to be great storytellers, too. We have to tell stories - emotive, compelling stories - and even more so because we're nonfiction.

The great thing for me is I wasn't a great player - I managed at the lower level and managed to be successful and that gives great hope to everyone else.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?

First, draw off your hearts, because Jesus Christ, the Head, is risen and ascended upon high, and there sits at the right hand of His Father; and if the Head is in heaven, where should the members be but where the Head is? Shall Christ our Head be in heaven, and shall our hearts, which are His members, lie groveling on the ground and panting after the dust of the earth, making all our inquiry and labor after these? 'If Christ our Head be risen, seek those things that are above, where Christ sits at God's right hand.'

In 'Main Prem' I had to put myself into the hearts of young lovers.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways.

A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

The United States is a great, great country, but it's not the only country, and we can learn a great deal beyond our own shores.