461 quotes found
“I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.”
“Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master;--obey!”
“emotion is first of all and in principle an accident”
“The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.”
“If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely descriptive, relating to form and colour, and were used to present the objects under consideration, n...”
“Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.”
“My strength is translating emotion because I'm such a feeler.”
“Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.”
“Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.”
“It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.”
“I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.”
“I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.”
“Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.”
“You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to someth...”
“If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered.”
“Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.”
“One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love.So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it todescribe their...”
“Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invis...”
“Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason ...”
“Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that...”
