Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pablo Neruda

Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable. It is necessary first to pan though all other poetry in order to become a political poet.

Philip Slater

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

Martin Schulz

European policy is always an interplay of rationality and emotion.

Leonardo da Vinci

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

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.

Matthieu Ricard

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

Matt Stone

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

Merrill Markoe

As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.

Martina Hingis

I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it.

Michael Giacchino

Brad Bird is fond of saying that music is the easiest thing that can derail a film because if it slightly goes a degree off track it will take the viewer in the wrong emotional direction. To work with people who actually care about that is a good thing.

Michael Arndt

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

Mark Burnett

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

Mariel Hemingway

I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

Marie Lu

Without emotion, what's the point of being human?

Theodore Roosevelt

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

Theodor Adorno

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Margaret Halsey

The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.

Kimbra

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

Michael Bolton

But I'm not superstitious. I don't really eat dinner before I go on stage, because digesting a lot of food kind of shuts you down. And I try not to get involved in emotional conversations with anyone beforehand either, so I've got a clear head.

I guess its my job to give the pep talk but I was so emotional listening to these stories I don't know how good of a job I did.

I think our kids realize that we've got to be a little more disciplined, a little more in control, in that situation. We can't tune down the emotion because, if we're not emotional, we don't have a shot.

I think our emotions were running a little high. It was hard to focus even if it was our last game of the season. Plus, their zone gave us fits. We weren't able to knock down shots.

Jazmine Sullivan

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

Ron Reagan

I'm OK with my own emotions, but other people's emotions just put me on the floor.

Ed Belfour

I had to get the focus back. I've been a part of some of those nights before and they are always emotional and special.

Grady Sizemore

I had mixed emotions, ... It was such a tough week and a frustrating time. I wanted to come through and I didn't. A lot was going through my head.

I had mixed emotions (about leaving) at first, but no regrets now. Had I stayed in St. Louis, I might not even have a job next year.

Tanith Belbin

In 2002, I was sitting at home watching the opening ceremonies, not knowing how emotional it would be knowing I could have been there. I turned it off pretty quick. I don't know what it would have felt like if we'd had to do it again. I'm glad we don't.

The first emotion you feel is disappointment, ... That doesn't stay for too long. I don't think it stayed as long as people would expect. It was fast and fleeting.

Curtis Joseph

The first period wasn't the script that I wanted, but fortunately, the ending was. There was a lot of emotion out there. I grew up in the area.