#hearts

The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day. ↗

— John Doolittle

#day #diluted #families #four #hearts

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #champagne #classical-music #feasts #happiness

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts! ↗

— Virgil

#compel #dost #gold #hearts #human

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#art #being #certain #conspiracy #decently

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#brains #clothes #hearts #liking #make

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#commit #cultivation #duty #enable #forbid

I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#hearts #i #just #part #people

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#apart #both #carry #difficulty #heads

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#hearts #like #men #over #pull

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#hearts #imagination #line #measure #our