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Heart Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such…
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your…
- You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.
- The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel.…
- Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.
- Love is the pursuit of shadows ...
- They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering…
- The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
- The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.
- Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,…
- Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start…
- Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken;…
- Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor,…
- If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.
- At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for…
- Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!
- I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?
More Heart Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- 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