Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Sophia Amoruso

I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be.

Sonia Rykiel

I have the feeling I've always done what I wanted throughout my life.

Ruby Rose

Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.

Rosie Perez

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?

Roger Daltrey

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

Russ Carnahan

Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.

Tiesto

There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival.

Thomas Carlyle

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Tony Fadell

I’m always doubtful. Everything I do is always doubtful. When you’re trying to differentiate, there’s going to be this gut sense, is this right? If you’re not having doubt, then you’re not pushing it hard enough, or you’re not looking at the details close enough. You need to be feeling that doubt every single day.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't consider my private feelings to be relevant in any way, actually.

Stefan Zweig

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

Stefan Zweig

We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone. No algebra of the mind can calculate it, no alchemy of premonition divine it, and it can seldom perceive itself.

Sonia Sotomayor

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

Sophie Kinsella

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.

Thomas Hardy

He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibles of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

Thomas B. Macaulay

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

Tim Cahill

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.

Thomas Lennon

I need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that's based on what's happening at the time that's not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing.

Thomas Jefferson

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

Thomas Francis Meagher

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

Thom Gunn

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Raymond Williams

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

Victoria Azarenka

That intensity, that feeling of the battle, heat of the moment: personally, that's what I live for.

Vicki Baum

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

Vicente Fox

And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

Veronica Roth

All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.

Richard Bach

Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?

Vita Sackville-West

There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.