Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Chapman

Gifts need not be expensive; after all, "it's the thuoght that counts." But I remind you, it is not the thought left in your head that counts; it is the gift that came out of the thought that communicates emotional love.

Gary Chapman

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

George Gershwin

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

Luis Barragan

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Luc de Clapiers

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

Nigella Lawson

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

Nicolas Cage

First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director.

Noomi Rapace

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

Nat King Cole

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Monica Seles

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

Mili Avital

I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.

Mike Mills

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.

John Wooden

Never let your emotions overrule your head.

Matthew Arnold

The heart less bounding at emotion new, / The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

Neil Diamond

the hardest part of this whole project. Each song has its own story, its own emotional content, its own reason for being.

Arthur Ganson

The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves.

Rory Sabbatini

A lot of mixed emotions. A lot of it is relief.

You were frustrated with her, you wanted to help her because this is a mental illness, this hoarding is, and you also were frustrated with her and you wanted to do to her what she was doing to the dogs...Some real mixed emotions when you went on the property.

You've got to come out with emotion and play every play like it's the last play. We didn't do that. We didn't execute. We didn't move without the ball. We just didn't play.

You've got a market of emotions, and I think the emotions show us that the markets want to rise.

The true purpose of pain in one's life is to grow strong--in faith, spirit, and emotions.

Doug Collins

These are emotional games when it comes to City.

Elle Macpherson

Underwear is such an emotional thing.

Missy Peregrym

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head…And I don’t think that should get any easier.

Paulo Coelho

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

Mariano Rivera

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

Max Eastman

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

Noah Baumbach

I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.