Joseph Conrad Quotes

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Done

• The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Heart
  • Peace
  • Powerful

• If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Business
  • Trust

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rock

• I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Listening

• Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Hope
  • Dream
  • Fly

• I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Clear

• Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Friends

• Now that I know what goes into making a pilot, keeping it on the air, and keeping your fans, I'm at a point now where I do a pilot and just hope for the best. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Opportunity

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Heart

• I learned early on – I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Learned

• In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Heart
  • True
  • Matters

• He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Freedom
  • Lost
  • Trust

• He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Heart
  • Rip

• When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.

  

  Harper Lee

• My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.

  

  James Fenton
  • Lost

• Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay in the box - but let's face it. Sensible people don't major in anthropology.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Studied

• For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

  

  Richard Wright Pink Floyd
  • Thinking
  • Playing Music
  • Meditating

• Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

  

  Joseph Conrad
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Trust