Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Storr

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

Bill Hicks

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

It is an emotional roller coaster, ... It's my faith that gives me hope, but when I see how people are responding to those in need, it's renewed my hope in humanity, as well.

Jim Calhoun

Jeff is probably the most emotional kid we have. He's just really an emotional person and I think he operates on that.

My sister and brother-in-law started the ministry in memory of my nephew, ... Because it's my nephew, I have a very emotional tie to the ministry. You just can't get a better story for feeding hungry children.

Ken Jennings

Marcus is a good ballplayer. But he gets to the point where he thinks he has to play the whole game by himself. Then when he tries to get his teammates involved, they kind of let him down. Marcus is an emotional kid.

Eugene Ionesco

Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions; they explain the whole of History, and the initial fall of man.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't maintain that emotional level. I guess I'm lucky we have another week left in spring training, and that will give me an opportunity to recover.

Jennifer Aniston

I was upset about the Vanity Fair article. I had one moment when I got emotional because I hadn't sat down with an interviewer since this whole debacle took place. It happened for a second and then it was over.

I was glad to get out there. It was emotional for me, just putting on the uniform and being able to take the field at Jacobs Field.

Elena Dementieva

I think she's emotional but she doesn't show you her emotion on the court. I'm sure she can be nervous. She can be nervous but she doesn't like to show you.

I think he feels like it's time to get back with the guys a little bit. It's going to be an emotional weekend for Dave, but I think he'll do just fine. I think he's just ready to do that.

I thought it was really emotional and you really showed how good you are.

I think we all did things in that series that we usually would have never done because it was such an emotional series.

It is no longer factual. It is an emotional roller coaster.

Matt Leinart

I was a little tight out there in the first half, you know it was an emotional day. I was off, obviously.

Bjorn Borg

Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

Biz Stone

You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

We are all looking forward to seeing Scott again. It promises to be an emotional evening.

Carl Jung

If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses

Yeah, their kids played an emotional first half and we made some mistakes.

We found a reason for doing the show. There's an emotional tie, now. There is now a vital reason for exploring this topic as a play.

Olly Murs

If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!

Martha Beck

Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'

We've got some pretty emotional players, and they play hard. But you've got to play smart.

Miguel de Cervantes

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Yesterday was tough ... it was tough. I found out the results about 10 minutes before practice was over. It was an emotional situation.

We don't go on a search-and-destroy mission looking for these. If it isn't a traffic hazard, we tend to let these things go. It is a very emotional type of situation.

We can't worry about who they have playing or who they don't have playing or where they're getting their emotional lift. This is Monday Night Football. This is a huge game where everybody is watching. If you can't come out with the intensity you need to play, you don't have a pulse.

Most don't take time to do that. It was a tremendous, positive, emotional experience to spend time with him.

Bertrand Russell

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

That was a very emotional win for us last year.