Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Maxwell Maltz

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

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.

Marilyn vos Savant

When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.

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.

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Lauryn Hill

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

Laura Linney

When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Savage

I'm beginning to think that women should be denied the vote. Their hormones rage; they are too emotional.

Marianne Williamson

If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.

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.

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.