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 ~
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
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 ~
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
~By John Barton ~
To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.
~By Melvin Calvin ~
None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.
~By Ric Flair ~
In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
~By Edward Steichen ~
I hope that they enjoy the movie. Don't be critical. Don't expect to get the same feelings you got when you watched the series when you were 10 years old. Let your kids see it and experience it on their own.
~By Mark Goddard ~
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 ~
Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
~By Barry Mann ~
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these... mixed feelings that we had.
~By Betty Hill ~
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
~By Pope John XXIII ~
You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
~By Arnold Schoenberg ~
You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
~By Harold Ramis ~
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.
~By John Gray ~
Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
~By Paris Hilton ~
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 very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
~By Ann Richards ~
The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
~By Laura Innes ~
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
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 ~
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.
~By Jody Watley ~
The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.
~By Klaus Kinski ~
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
~By Bono ~
If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.
~By Amy Grant ~
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
~By Sallust ~
Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.
~By John Bates Clark ~
I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.
~By Jonathan Demme ~
When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
~By Adele Faber ~
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 ~
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer.
~By Stephen Collins ~
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
~By S. E. Hinton ~
A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.
~By January Jones ~
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
~By Mary Oliver ~
So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
~By Lee Child ~
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 ~
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
~By Diogenes of Sinope ~
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
~By Gavin Bryars ~
Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career.
~By Al Jarreau ~
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 ~
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 ~
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
~By Eduard Hanslick ~
I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.
~By Helmut Newton ~
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
~By Charles Henry Parkhurst ~
Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
~By Scott Ian ~
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.
~By Carol Shields ~
God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
~By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~
I waged war against my feelings.
~By John James Audubon ~
I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.
~By Phil Donahue ~
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
~By Samuel Adams ~
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 ~
We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.
~By Keith Miller ~
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
~By Xun Zi ~
I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.
~By Judith Wright ~
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
~By Anna Freud ~
I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
~By Florence Nightingale ~
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
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 ~
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can.
~By Franka Potente ~
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 ~
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 ~
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
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 ~
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.
~By Brenda Lee ~
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 ~
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 ~
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
~By Giotto di Bondone ~
It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road.
~By Joseph C. Lincoln ~
I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
~By Fred Melamed ~
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
~By Robert Stone ~
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
~By Samuel Ullman ~
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
~By Emily Post ~
I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.
~By David Coverdale ~
When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.
~By Elmer Bernstein ~
Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.
~By Dougray Scott ~
Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.
~By Kent McCord ~
That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.
~By Diana Krall ~
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 had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.
~By Betty Buckley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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