Feelings famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.
-- A. A. Milne -
Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!†said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
-- A. A. Milne -
When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.
-- A. B. Simpson -
One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
-- A. C. Cuza -
You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence.
-- A. H. Almaas -
There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.
-- A.J. Ayer -
I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
-- A.M. Homes -
Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I`m stronger.
-- Aaron Carter -
I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
-- Aaron Carter -
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
-- Aaron Copland -
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
-- Aaron Siskind -
Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
-- Aaron Tveit -
What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.
-- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller -
I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.
-- Abby Sunderland -
I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.
-- Abigail Breslin -
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.
-- Abraham Maslow -
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.
-- Abraham Verghese -
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
-- Abraham Verghese -
My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
-- Abraham Verghese -
I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
-- Ace Frehley -
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
-- Adam Carolla -
I guess my feeling is that if you’re going to make a joke, that’s fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you’re trying to make.
-- Adam Carolla -
I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
-- Adam Driver -
Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.
-- Adam Driver -
There was a little element of feeling like a cow.
-- Adam Gilchrist -
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
-- Adam Gopnik -
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
-- Adam Hamilton -
Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
-- Adam Levine -
Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you're left feeling hollow and empty.
-- Adam Levine -
I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.
-- Adam Sandler -
I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.
-- Adam Yauch -
The scars of your love remind me of us they keep me thinking that we almost had it all the scars of your love they leave me breathless I can't help feeling we could have had it all
-- Adele -
When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
-- Adele Faber -
I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.
-- Adolf Eichmann -
Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).
-- Adolf Hitler -
In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?
-- Adolf Hitler -
I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.
-- Adolph Gottlieb -
This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling
-- Adriana Trigiani -
As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss....
-- Aelred of Rievaulx -
The effect of scent is really interesting. It can create a mood and change a feeling immediately. I wanted to create a modern wardrobe of fragrances ... fragrances that can be very personal to the woman who's wearing them.
-- Aerin Lauder -
It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.
-- African Spir -
I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.
-- Agatha Christie -
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
-- Agnes Martin -
I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.
-- Agnes Obel -
On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.
-- Agnes Obel -
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
-- Agnes Repplier -
No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds
-- Ahmad ibn Ajiba -
I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings..
-- Ai Yazawa -
That overflowing feeling became love. But I don't sing for Ren's sake. I sing for myself everyday.
-- Ai Yazawa -
People’s feelings are easily swayed. The things reflected in people’s eyes are full of deception. Nothing is as it appears.
-- Ai Yazawa -
Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.
-- Aileen Fisher -
Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
-- Aimee Bender -
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
-- Aimee Mann -
Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
-- Aimee Mann -
Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
-- Ajahn Chah -
The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
-- Ajahn Chah -
The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
-- Akio Morita -
What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.
-- Al Gore -
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.
-- Al Lopez -
It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
-- Al Pacino -
The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
-- Alain de Botton -
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.
-- Alain de Botton -
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...
-- Alain de Botton -
Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
-- Alain de Botton -
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
-- Alain de Botton -
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
-- Alain Prost -
It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.
-- Alain Robert -
With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
-- Alain Robert -
When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
-- Alan Alda -
John Cross is feeling very boyish about Arsenal's chances
-- Alan Brazil -
Spurs fans are feeling very boyish about the future
-- Alan Brazil -
My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
-- Alan Cumming -
The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings. Viewed simply as a life-support system, the earth is an environment. Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.
-- Alan Gussow -
There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had
-- Alan Hollinghurst -
Harden our hearts to the innocents in the womb, and we have hardened our hearts to the need for compassion, and mercy, and fellow-feeling, and charity, and decency in this world.
-- Alan Keyes -
Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It's a chemical thing in the brain. It's a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
-- Alan Lightman -
You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
-- Alan Lightman -
I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.
-- Alan Parker -
I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
-- Alan Rickman -
I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.
-- Alan Shearer -
You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent.
-- Alan Shearer -
I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.
-- Alan Sugar -
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.
-- Alan Watts -
A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there
-- Alanis Morissette -
There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
-- Alban Berg -
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
-- Alban Berg
