Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Lightman

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

Alain de Botton

Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

Outside of my parents, what I learned at De La Salle has influenced me the most in my life. Obviously, there's a huge emotional impact.

J. J. Johnson

Riley was full of smiles that whole day. It was quite emotional because we just went to watch. We didn't think that would happen. But that is what Power Soccer is all about. The game is truly inclusive.

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.

Matt Leinart

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

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.

Rasheed Wallace

I think it was pretty emotional for him. He's a pretty emotional cat. I was just paying my respects. I can imagine it's tough for him right now, but hey, I have to concentrate on this team.

It gets emotional at the pinning ceremony. These students have been through a lot together.

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.

I think it's going to be very emotional for all of us.

It hurts because I wanted to win one for them before they leave. It's emotional to look around and see guys that you know won't be here next year.

It hurts a lot and I'm not a very emotional person ... but inside it hurts.

Carlos Acosta

It is going to make for a very long and emotional summer. As far as I'm concerned, when anything unusual strikes fear in you is no way to live in the United States of America. But that is what is going to happen until any sort of comprehensive legislation is passed.

I think we were too emotional to start the game. We got that big lead more on emotion than substance. And once the emotion wore off, we struggled.

David Nicholls

I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

John Conyers

We need to move past the emotional side of this issue, ... over the top ... We need to invest in solutions of a preventive nature.

We never saw this coming. They played emotional football and, for the most part, they really had momentum and control.

Carl Rogers

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.

Carl Rogers

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

Carl Sagan

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

Carl Sagan

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

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.

Bertrand Russell

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

That's the thing to know about Louise Bourgeois, more than anything else, is her own immediate reality and her own emotional landscape that is always the subject of her work.

I was really emotional afterward because I worked so hard to get to that point and my injury took it all away.

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

Why would they teach kids how to have sex when there are so many physical and emotional dangers?

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

Beck

As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.