How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Repressed anger becomes a temporary madness. Something happens which is beyond your control. If you could have controlled, you would have controlled… — Osho Copy Share Image
Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
Many leaders rely on confidence, the ability to make timely decisions, and hold themselves and others accountable. But some of these leaders… — Suzanne Bates Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I wrote a song called 'Red' and thinking about what that song means to me and all the different emotions on this… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“When writing, there are some scenes that are emotionally overwhelming. They completely overcome the author, and only when they do this can… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's easy to respond to the hate cries, usually carefully wrapped up in a flag. Perhaps hate is the greatest simplifier of… — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
“Perspective basically guarantees that there’s no such thing as a pure emotion. Every emotion is based on how sucky (or not) something… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“Spiritualizing sex is actually a movement of energy—feeling and emotion—that rises within you and moves into your sexual physicality as an alive,… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is,… — Adam Young Copy Share Image
Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was… — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness,"… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My parents' generation didn't have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and… — Jennifer Carpenter Copy Share Image
Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
“Americans come out of the comparison rather better. They may overdo emotion, but they are not fearful of it. A surplus of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I'm definitely inspired by music; I feel like I can express a part of myself, a part of my heart and my… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
I never sing a song more than twice because my fear of waning excitement for a piece is part of my troubles.… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious.… — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally,… — Bjork Copy Share Image
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are… — John Train Copy Share Image
The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething… — Shankarananda Copy Share Image
I quit the Knicks, so I know what quitting is. I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day.… — Jeff Van Gundy Copy Share Image
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with… — Grey Owl Copy Share Image
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
