461 quotes found
“There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)”
“Now bound by the sudden rush of emotion that reverberates through me as I remain intent on awakening Nadia, I push my fingertips upward over her neck as if pushing a coin from the edge of heaven, w...”
“We are betrayed by our maps of salience. They plot our narratives, identify our enemies and then coat them in distorting layer of loathing and dread. We feel that hunch - withdraw - and then conduc...”
“Emotional security is just as important as financial security.”
“Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.”
“Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.”
“What happened to you? When did you stop believing in yourself? In your gift? In what you deserve?”
“Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical worl...”
“Safety was one thing, but what he really wanted was to be electrified, to be wounded, to be cast into the wilderness, to be released, to be exalted, and most especially to be surrounded by the drow...”
“No...No...We don't walk away but when we're holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can.”
“Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabulari...”
“I have worked too damn hard encasing that beating life force into a steel box.”
“I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.”
“We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperati...”
“So long as this struggle known as life goes on, there will always be the music to fit the mood and make it better.”
“A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, remains opaque, presents a dead weight which our sensibilities ha...”
“It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive, when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.”
“While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not succumb to perso...”
“Emotion... a weird sense of human....strong handling make us numb....loose handling make us dumb...”
“Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope.”
