Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
~By Barry Mann ~
I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.
~By Anna Held ~
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
~By Mason Cooley ~
None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.
~By Ric Flair ~
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
~By Milan Kundera ~
In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot describe. I felt that here was a prize for all the games I had ever played.
~By Helen Wills Moody ~
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
~By Michelangelo Antonioni ~
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
~By John Keats ~
And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
~By Amy Tan ~
A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
~By Joe Henderson ~
Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
~By Nora Ephron ~
Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.
~By Corbin Bernsen ~
I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.
~By Corey Haim ~
I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural.
~By Tony Visconti ~
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
~By Theodore Dreiser ~
But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
~By Eduard Hanslick ~
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.
~By Michael Shanks ~
You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
~By Harold Ramis ~
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
~By Stella Blum ~
I was a master at keeping my feelings in.
~By Mark David Chapman ~
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.
~By Maurice Gibb ~
But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.
~By Alicia Machado ~
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
~By Buddha ~
There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
~By Vince Carter ~
I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.
~By Brenda Lee ~
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.
~By Eric Braeden ~
We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.
~By Shigeru Yoshida ~
I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
~By Pamela Stephenson ~
Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
~By David Borenstein ~
I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.
~By Vinny Testaverde ~
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
~By Henry Rollins ~
I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.
~By Tom Wilkinson ~
I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
~By Virginia Satir ~
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.
~By Kevin Costner ~
Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
~By Ann Richards ~
It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.
~By Robert De Niro ~
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
~By Xun Zi ~
I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.
~By Herb Alpert ~
I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
~By Erykah Badu ~
First feelings are always the most natural.
~By Louis XIV ~
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
~By Aaron Copland ~
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.
~By Jimmy Rushing ~
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
~By William Henry Harrison ~
It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
~By Berthe Morisot ~
There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.
~By Christine McVie ~
I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.
~By Benny Green ~
When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.
~By David Coverdale ~
Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
~By Judith Wright ~
I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
~By David Duchovny ~
A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
~By Luigi Pirandello ~
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
~By Samuel Adams ~
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
~By George Santayana ~
My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.
~By Geoffrey Fisher ~
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
~By Brian Tracy ~
The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.
~By Jung Chang ~
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.
~By Don Johnson ~
I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
~By Arianna Huffington ~
For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.
~By Otto Frank ~
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
~By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~
The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.
~By Klaus Kinski ~
Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.
~By Keith Miller ~
In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.
~By Dave Holland ~
Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.
~By Willie Stargell ~
I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
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