Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

John Krasinski

The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

John Krasinski

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

John Krasinski

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Kurt Busiek

I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. But I don't know that it's a necessary part of the appeal that the superhero be superior.

Khaled Hosseini

It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.

Jonathan Sacks

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

Narendra Modi

We are not here for any positions but for a responsiblity.

Narendra Modi

This election result has increased people's faith in democracy.

Narendra Modi

I will try to live up to expectations of people; will present report card to people in 2019.

Narendra Modi

Hung verdict would have meant anger against previous govt; Clear verdict to BJP shows people voted for hope and aspiration.

Narendra Modi

There is new hope among people that this dispensation can fulfill their aspirations.

Napoleon Hill

You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.

Norman Mailer

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Octavia Butler

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

Ntozake Shange

I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.

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

Harvey Mackay

The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't quite imagine if you've spent your whole career in a corporation.

Louise J. Kaplan

We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it immensely difficult to give them up....Because they were made at a time of life when we were utterly dependent on them, the love attachments of infancy have inordinate power over us, more than any other emotional investment.

The emotion we had Saturday was probably an all-time high from what I've seen before. When you're on the field and you look over to the sideline after a play and everybody's going crazy, that type of emotion is what we need each game. It sparks the way we play.

The emotions are high right now. Everybody's ready for that first game. We've just got to be patient, stay with our pattern and take it one day at a time.

The emotion of this week has been overwhelming. It's like losing someone in your family.

The emotion of Pennsylvania is captured. It just reiterates the quality and quantity of Pennsylvania artists.

Richard Hamming

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

The emotional response is natural. However, people have to let the intellectual side win, because the only way they will ever have enough money to retire is if they have equity-like returns.