461 quotes found
“Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.”
“A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently ...”
“Sometimes he was weird, sometimes he was Captain Douchebag, but he was always my best friend.”
“A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings sprout and grow-and feelings are all that matters, as far as I'm concerned. Is a feeling anything bu...”
“The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying.”
“Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.”
“I feel like I've been through a lot in the past couple of years, But I've kept pretty stable. That's because I channel that emotion into performance. I can handle emotion as long as it's only a son...”
“If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions.”
“If you're putting that energy into performance," he said, "you're also getting it back out again, right? You're giving so you can receive." He spread his arms wide. "If you were writing songs with ...”
“I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.”
“Physical intimacy isnt and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.”
“With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.”
“She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion...”
“A politician is not allowed to get too emotional in public, so what he does is drop subtle hints that, over time, cause the public to get emotional. Once the same emotions are generated by enough p...”
“You can't plan someone else's future, and I fully plan to become someone else.”
“If I open my mouthMy word would be of love and hopeTenderness completing me from inside out”
“Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.”
“Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.”
“one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.”
“A gentle, warm, sweet pain spreads through my chest at those words.”
