Famous Quotes & Sayings

Smokey Robinson

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.

Socrates

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Mercedes Lackey

Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are.

Michelle Obama

Good health is multifaceted - it's physical, it's internal, it's my diet, and my emotional state. It's all tied in together.

Michelle Obama

To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.

Michael Shannon

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

Michael Sheen

Nothing can be left until the last minute, so that everyone knows exactly where they are. Everyone is comfortable and everyone feels safe because we want people to be able to keep coming into this show and taking those risks. There are a lot of risks in this show, not just nudity, but emotional risks. We want the best actors to feel comfortable about coming in and exploring this subject matter with us.

Michael Shermer

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

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.

Mike Tyson

I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.

Neil Gaiman

Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.

John Sterling

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

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 true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matt Kemp

I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part.

Maxwell Maltz

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

Max Brooks

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

Maurice Ravel

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Matthew Perry

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

Mary Tyler Moore

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

Patricia Heaton

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

Patricia Heaton

Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.