Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can see into the heart of all your characters. Usually, when there's a writing problem, it's because you aren't doing that.
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
If home is where the heart is, then Belize is my home.
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes place, we have to feel the necessity of manifesting this constant delight in our heart. The delight glows, but does not burn. It has tremendous intensity, but it is all softness and absolutely sweet-flowing nectar.
I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.
They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart.
Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.
As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
A merry heart doeth good like medicine.
I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my teachers encouraged me to take up singing.
I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.
I'm a country girl at heart.
For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.
When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.
My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'
I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.
You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.
The kitchen is the heart of the house.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.
We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.
Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
