Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.

David Burnett

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

David Brooks

When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.

Benicio Del Toro

It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don't know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it's a great feeling.

Bear Grylls

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

Audrey Hepburn

You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly ... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive.

Arthur Scargill

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

Edward Kennedy

The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential decency of our fellow citizens on the other side.

Edna Ferber

Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.

Ben Affleck

One of the things it channelled in me was that experience that I'd had of wearing a big red leather thing on my upper torso in Daredevil with a mask I couldn't see through and an outfit that completely inhibited movement, feeling humiliated and like a fool. I just recalled that.

Arthur Golden

My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.

Arthur Golden

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Arthur Golden

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

Anton Chekhov

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

bell hooks

There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.

Barry Sanders

Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If you are feeling helpless, help someone.

Ariel Garten

Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable.

Ariel Pink

I definitely don't feel a sense of jealousy or competition, and that's a really good feeling.

Arianna Huffington

Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings

Delta Burke

A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.

Demi Lovato

It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred

Demi Lovato

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.

Demetri Martin

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

Daniel Handler

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

Daniel Handler

Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

Daniel Handler

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

Daniel Handler

If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the first letters. Somebody who didn’t care about dentists, for instance could say ‘Dentist, schmentists.

Daniel Handler

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Craig Ferguson

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

Conor McGregor

I like looking good. But it's also about the feeling, right?

Elizabeth Strout

The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch steps, felt absolutely certain that some wonderful change was arriving in her life. The strength of this belief was puzzling; what she was feeling, she decided, was really the presence of God.