Robert South Quotes

Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.

A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.

He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.

Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?

Sadness is so ungrateful.

I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant together mixed. Don't think I am unaware, some startled deer to stand transfixed by hunter's horns. It's she who should take care, for when she strikes, my heart will make a sound so beautiful and bright that it can't help but bring her back to me in winged light.

Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!

I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin.

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

People die, Rachel," Ceri said, her cheeks flushing. "Not if I can help it," I snapped. "And not of a broken heart. If you could, I'd be dead already.

The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves anew. Global Souls are always on the move, nomads at heart, connected to various cities, commuters between cultures, both from here and everywhere.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.