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Feeling Quotes by George Eliot
- Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
- It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the…
- But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be…
- To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
- A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
- To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,…
- Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to…
- There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual…
- And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she…
- Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all…
- You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
- The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the…
- It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves…
- Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
- Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them…
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- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have… — Lauren Bacall
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu
- I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I… — Amy Adams
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs
- In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there… — Ansel Adams
- Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac