Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

Sara Bareilles

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

Wil Wheaton

It’s not about what you said. It’s not about what you did. It’s not about what you love. It’s about them feeling bad about themselves.

Saint Francis de Sales

One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.

Tori Amos

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

Tori Amos

Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

Vera Wang

Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.

Venus Williams

It's a great feeling to have accomplished what I have, but I want to do more.

Vera Farmiga

Music is what our feelings sound like.

Richard Dawkins

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Richard Dawkins

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

Rodrigo Santoro

I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

Robert Ryan

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.

Robert Motherwell

The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?

Robert Motherwell

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

Rob Brown

If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

Rob Corddry

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

Richard Dawkins

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

Richelle Mead

Behaviors and feelings rarely line up

Richelle Mead

It had to be one of the weirdest things in the universe that Lissa had never come close to suspecting my feelings for Dimitri but that Adrian had figured it out.

Rebecca West

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

Richard Bach

Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.

Thomas S. Monson

Now, some of you may be shy by nature, perhaps feeling yourselves inadequate to respond affirmatively to a calling. Remember that this work is not yours and mine alone. It is the Lord's work, and when we are on the Lord's errand, brethren, we are entitled to the Lord's help. Remember that the Lord will shape the back to bear the burden placed upon it.

Robert Musil

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

Robert Baden-Powell

Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best

Richard M. Nixon

If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.

Richard Russo

Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

Richard Russo

I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.

Richard Russo

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

Robert Duvall

I like the good feeling movies.

Robert De Niro

You don't need words to express feelings.

Trevor Nunn

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.