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Heart Quotes by Herman Melville
- To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
- In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
- Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.
- God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture…
- Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.
- Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
- He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and…
- When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember…
- Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an…
- If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed…
- Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when…
- Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the…
- All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn…
- How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there…
- So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on…
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- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin