Stevie Smith Quotes

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

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• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • True
  • Imagination

• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Dream

• Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Heart
  • Blessed
  • Seek

• Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Energy

• The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Heart
  • Down
  • Paper

• When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum's illness and Dad's battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me - reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Heart
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • Heart

• Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Different
  • Heart
  • War

• Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Night

• A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

  

  Laurel Lea
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Thoughts

• If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Heart
  • Caring

• I believed then - in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult - that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • World
  • Heart
  • Deep

• Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Heart
  • Forever
  • Sun

• You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

  

  Mary MacLane
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • May

• Obesity puts our children at risk of developing serious diseases - such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression. It keeps our children from performing their best at school.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Children
  • School
  • Heart

• As I've told my three daughters, all of whom I've at one time encouraged to go into macro trading, any man or woman can do anything to which they set their heart and mind.

  

  Paul Tudor Jones
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I wear my heart on my sleeve.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Heart

• When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Great
  • Heart
  • True

• If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything. But with our music, we try to teach the masses of fans that not everything is as it seems.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • Music

• Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Law
  • Support

• He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Care
  • Lying
  • Firsts

• I like to mix it up, but I do like a lot of '60s fashion. But I like to make it a bit more edgier, sometimes a bit more rockier, sometimes a bit more classic.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • Up
  • Fashion

• I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Heart
  • Knives