For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Life is what you make of it, unless you have tourette's, in which case much becomes involuntary. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The unifying factor in my career across investing and entrepreneurship was that the whole time I've basically been an involuntary power user… — Justin Kan Copy Share Image
A heart is an involuntary muscle.. We can't make it stop from beating.. maybe that's why we can't make it stop from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are… — Randolph Scott Copy Share Image
It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in… — Mildred Blaxter Copy Share Image
In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Jesus expressed intense anger toward those who where immoral, such as the self-righteous Pharisees, but he never suggested that they were demonized.… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be… — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with… — Jim Keith Copy Share Image
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do;… — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
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