A well-portrayed character lingers in the hearts of the audience, becoming a part of their own stories

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,
And went with half my life about my ways.

Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

Life is short, and we have but little time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the dark way with us. Be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

I really feel that from my heart that, no matter the number of best stories may exist in this world or on this very planet earth, I find only one story to be the real one, and that is the very story of escape.

Baseball is a game of strategy, but it’s also a game of heart.

Baseball is a game of history and statistics, but it’s also a game of heart and soul

The scoreboard may show the score, but it can’t measure the heart and soul of a player

Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart

A novel is a map of the human heart, a guide to the depths of our emotions

Sometimes,’ said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn’t such a moment sufficient for the whole of one’s life?

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

If you see it, darling, then it’s there! With every single beat of my heart. Every single day of my life

Of course, we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them; we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.

Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart’s drama and the negative meaning of history.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

Staring at each other, who’s gonna make the first move? Been doing our thing for a minute, and now both our hearts are in it

Your poor little heart will end up alone ‘Cause Lord knows I’m a rolling stone

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come

Manchester United is still in my heart. Disappointed they didn’t win the title but they are still the kings of Premier League.

Don Alfredo leaves us, but his memory will last forever in our hearts. Legends never die. Thanks for everything Maestro.

We saw that he plays with his heart too. He obviously loves the game so much and was distraught to lose in the final. Seeing him cry nearly got me going too.

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

There’s a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don’t involve show business. I’m going to become a television critic. Can you imagine? But I would even consider becoming a baseball scout. Traveling around the heartland looking for the next world-beating phenom.

Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.

I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart. If you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

I find myself frequently depressed – perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions.

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart

When Kulture was born, I felt like I was a kid again; everything was making me cry, and I needed a lot of love

Was a good girl, watch me turn diva. Here goes my heart, I put it on speaker.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I train to quite an intense level because Formula 1 is so physical – the G-forces, the demands on your body. Your heart rate is 150, 160 through the whole race. On qualifying lap, your heart rate can be up to 180, 190, under tough conditions.