George Cheyne Quotes
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.
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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.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'
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I have a big heart.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.
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I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.
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I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
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When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
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One had been dismissed - and subsequently executed - for a foiled assassination attempt on a higher ranking student, a second had been killed in the practice arena, and the third died in his bunk of natural causes - for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.
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Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
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A scholar ... should turn his ears from the talk of the illiterate and not take it to heart.
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Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.
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Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'
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I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.
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To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.
