Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erasmus Darwin

In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.

Emily Blunt

My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.

Emily Dickinson

How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!

Emile Durkheim

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

Emile Durkheim

It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

Ella Maillart

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.

Hermann Hesse

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Henri Matisse

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

Henri Matisse

...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

Henri Matisse

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

Henri Nouwen

The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.

Hayley Atwell

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

Henry Ward Beecher

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

Henry Charles Carey

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

Heinz Pagels

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

John Knowles

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

Johannes Brahms

What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Jonathan Safran Foer

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings

Jonathan Safran Foer

There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this." It happens all the time.

Napoleon Hill

The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind.

Napoleon Hill

ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

Odette Annable

If you ever were bullied, you always remember that feeling.

Oksana Baiul

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

Orson Welles

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

Oliver Stone

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

Oliver Sacks

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

Mel Torme

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

Mason Cooley

Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.

Mason Cooley

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.