The heart may think it
“The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.” Elizabeth Bowen
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“‘Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.” Elizabeth Bowen
“Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.” Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be.” Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
The upward course of a nation’s
“The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.” Elizabeth II
“We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we’ll do it … not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.” Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
