The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to… — W. G. Grace Copy Share Image
God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist; the real great alone plan… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We're trying, despite having done research and having obviously preconceived ideas, we try our best to be as open-hearted as possible, and… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Don’t you do that.” She turned away from the mirror, toward him. “Don’t you dare make a joke. It took a great… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the writers give us different people to work with, different situation scenarios to be in and there's always that fun… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“In case you haven’t noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because we can’t stand it. Literally. To think we… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
So the story goes, so I'm told The people he knew were Less than golden hearted Gamblers and robbers Drinkers and jokers,… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us… — John Piper Copy Share Image
When you're touring, you're working from the moment you wake up to the moment you got to bed. Sometimes you make up… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything. — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
My best quality is that I'm a big hearted person. I'm resilient, too. My worst quality is selfishness, although everyone is guilty… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty. — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room,… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we… — Michael Hutchence Copy Share Image
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I took a bite of cookie and chewed. “Hmmm,” I said, trying not to spit crumbs. “Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
