Quotes about feelings
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Shi Nai'an photo

“What excites pleasure in me is the meeting and conversing with old friends. But it is very galling when my friends do not visit me because there is a biting wind, or the roads are muddy through the rain, or perhaps because they are sick. Then I feel isolated. Although I myself do not drink, yet I provide spirits for my friends, […]. In front of my house runs a great river, and there I can sit with my friends in the shadow of the lovely trees. […] When they come they drink and chat, just as they please, but our pleasure is in the conversation and not in the liquor. We do not discuss politics because we are so isolated here that our news is simply composed of rumors, and it would only be a waste of time to talk with untrustworthy information. We also never talk about other people's faults, because in this world nobody is wrong, and we should beware of backbiting. We do not wish to injure anyone, and therefore our conversation is of no consequence to anyone. We discuss human nature about which people know so little because they are too busy to study it.”

Shi Nai'an (1296–1372) Chinese writer

Variant translation by Lin Yutang: "When all my friends come together to my house, there are sixteen persons in all, but it is seldom that they all come. But except for rainy or stormy days, it is also seldom that none of them comes. Most of the days, we have six or seven persons in the house, and when they come, they do not immediately begin to think; they would take a sip when they feel like it and stop when they feel like it, for they regard the pleasure as consisting in the conversation, and not in the wine. We do not talk about court politics, not only because it lies outside our proper occupation, but also because at such a distance most of the news is based upon hearsay; hearsay news is mere rumour, and to discuss rumours would be a waste of our saliva. We also do not talk about people's faults, for people have no faults, and we should not malign them. We do not say things to shock people and no one is shocked; on the other hand, we do wish people to understand what we say, but people still don't understand what we say. For such things as we talk about lie in the depths of the human heart, and the people of the world are too busy to hear them." (The Importance of Living, 1937; pp. 218–219)
Preface to Water Margin

Camille Paglia photo
Rollo May photo
John Stuart Mill photo
Anu Partanen photo
Anne Brontë photo
Hank Green photo

“I thought what would I give, if it could be true
If I could ever feel again the way I felt when I read you”

Hank Green (1980) American vlogger

This is not Harry Potter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZaCxfiUHs
Songs

Virginia Satir photo
Buddy Holly photo
Albrecht Thaer photo

“It is the residue of animal and vegetable putrefaction, and is a black body; when dry it is pulverulent, and when wet has a soft, greasy feel… It is the produce of organic power—a compound of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen, such as cannot be chemically composed.”

Albrecht Thaer (1752–1828) German agronomist and an avid supporter of the humus theory for plant nutrition

p. 336 http://books.google.com/books?id=zAhJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA336; Cited in: Edmund Ruffin An Essay on Calcareous Manures, Volume 1. J.W. Randolph, 1852. p. 85.
Ruffin summarizes:
"Humus" is the term used by this author for the decomposed vegetable and other organic matter which is more or less mixed with all surface soil, and which gives to soil all its fertility, and furnishes all the food of plants.
The Principles of Agriculture, 1844, Section III: Agronomy

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Ray Bradbury photo
Ray Comfort photo
Bob Dylan photo

“America was changing. I had a feeling of destiny and I was riding the changes… My consciousness was beginning to change, too, change and stretch.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 73

Julie Adams photo

“I think the best thing about the picture is that we do feel for the Creature. We feel for him and his predicament and where he is and so on. I think that’s a very positive thing really. I like that we feel sympathy for the Creature.”

Julie Adams (1926–2019) American actress

Exclusive Interview With Julie Adams http://www.horrorsociety.com/2013/09/23/exclusive-interview-with-julie-adams-star-of-creature-from-the-black-lagoon/ (September 23, 2013)

Robert Fogel photo
Paul Bourget photo

“Well, you must now imagine my friend at my age or almost there. You must picture him growing gray, tired of life and convinced that he had at last discovered the secret of peace. At this time he met, while visiting some relatives in a country house, a mere girl of twenty, who was the image, the haunting image of her whom he had hoped to marry thirty years before. It was one of those strange resemblances which extend from the color of the eyes to the 'timbre' of the voice, from the smile to the thought, from the gestures to the finest feelings of the heart. I could not, in a few disjointed phrases describe to you the strange emotions of my friend. It would take pages and pages to make you understand the tenderness, both present and at the same time retrospective, for the dead through the living; the hypnotic condition of the soul which does not know where dreams and memories end and present feeling begins; the daily commingling of the most unreal thing in the world, the phantom of a lost love, with the freshest, the most actual, the most irresistibly naïve and spontaneous thing in it, a young girl. She comes, she goes, she laughs, she sings, you go about with her in the intimacy of country life, and at her side walks one long dead. After two weeks of almost careless abandon to the dangerous delights of this inward agitation imagine my friend entering by chance one morning one of the less frequented rooms of the house, a gallery, where, among other pictures, hung a portrait of himself, painted when he was twenty-five. He approaches the portrait abstractedly. There had been a fire in the room, so that a slight moisture dimmed the glass which protected the pastel, and on this glass, because of this moisture, he sees distinctly the trace of two lips which had been placed upon the eyes of the portrait, two small delicate lips, the sight of which makes his heart beat. He leaves the gallery, questions a servant, who tells him that no one but the young woman he has in mind has been in the room that morning.”

Paul Bourget (1852–1935) French writer

Pierre Fauchery, as quoted by the character "Jules Labarthe"
The Age for Love

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq photo

“I genuinely feel that the survival of this country lies in democracy and democracy alone.”

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924–1988) 6th President of Pakistan

As quoted in "Mohammad Zia ul-Haq : Unbending Commander for Era of Atom and Islam" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2D71239F93BA2575BC0A96E948260, The New York Times (18 August 1988).

Vladimir Putin photo
Jan Smuts photo

“The groans of the dying and the blanched set faces of the dead … were enough to drive away all unwholesome feelings of exultation, and to remind one of the grim reality that war is. And even though these were the faces and the sufferings of our enemy, one had … a deeper sense of the common humanity which knows no racial distinctions.”

Jan Smuts (1870–1950) military leader, politician and statesman from South Africa

Smuts in Memoirs of the Boer War, p. 151, as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, Jan Smuts – Man of courage and vision, p. 15. ISBN 978-1-86842-390-3

Stevie Nicks photo

“No one knows how I feel,
What I say unless you read between my lines,
One man walked away from me
First he took my hand, take me home.”

Stevie Nicks (1948) American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac

Stand Back
The Wild Heart (1983)

Markiplier photo
Margaret Thatcher photo
Eugène Delacroix photo
Svetlana Alliluyeva photo
Marianne von Werefkin photo
Eliza Dushku photo

“Sometimes it feels like you’re losing, but even when you’re losing, you’re getting something.”

Eliza Dushku (1980) American actress

Eliza Dushku on Wrong Turn, Tru Calling and Buffy Your Guide, Fred Topel

Chris Cornell photo
Winston S. Churchill photo
Babe Ruth photo
Archibald Alexander Hodge photo
Warren Farrell photo

“If the Igbos feel that things are best for them in a country of their own, why shouldn’t they have it? If after all we have been going through in Nigeria we feel that Biafra is best, we have every right to seek to re-create Biafra or any other place.”

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933–2011) Nigerian politician and military leader

9 July, 2001, as quoted by Rudolph Okonkwo, My Last Interview With Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu - Rudolf Okonkwo http://saharareporters.com/column/my-last-interview-dim-chukwuemeka-ojukwu-rudolf-okonkwo, Sahara Reporters (26 November, 2011)

Frank Stella photo
50 Cent photo

“I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it.”

50 Cent (1975) American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer

If I Can't
Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)

Nayef Al-Rodhan photo
Calvin Coolidge photo

“When we look over the rest of the world, in spite of all its devastation there is encouragement to believe it is on a firmer moral foundation than it was in 1914. Much of the old despotism has been swept away, While some of it comes creeping back disguised under new names, no one can doubt that the general admission of the right of the people to self-government has made tremendous progress in nearly every quarter of the globe. In spite of the staggering losses and the grievous burden of taxation, there is a new note of hope for the individual to be more secure in his rights, which is unmistakably clearer than ever before. With all the troubles that beset the Old World, the former cloud of fear is evidently not now so appalling. It is impossible to believe that any nation now feels that it could better itself by war, and it is apparent to me that there has been a very distinct advance in the policy of peaceful and honorable adjustment of international differences. War has become less probable; peace has become more secure. The price which has been paid to bring about this new condition is utterly beyond comprehension. We can not see why it should not have come in orderly and peaceful methods without the attendant shock of fire and sword and carnage. We only know that it is here. We believe that on the ruins of the old order a better civilization is being constructed.”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)

1920s, Toleration and Liberalism (1925)

Hillary Clinton photo

“You know, joining a gang is like having a family. It's feeling like you're part of something bigger than yourself. So we're either going to have gangs that murder and rob and do the things that are so destructive to the gang members and to the community. Or, we're going to have positive gangs. We're going to have positive alternatives for young people.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Clinton: We Need Positive Gangs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVD0pvWL6R4; as quoted in * 2016-04-21
Clinton: We Could Have Positive Gangs
Chandler Gill
Free Beacon
http://freebeacon.com/culture/clinton-need-positive-gangs/.
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)

Hariprasad Chaurasia photo
Stanley Spencer photo
Patañjali photo

“When a man becomes steadfast in his abstention from harming others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in his presence”

Patañjali (-200–-150 BC) ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises

The Mahābhāṣya

William Glasser photo

“When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.”

William Glasser (1925–2013) American psychiatrist

[p.70]
Choice Theory (1997)

Aldo Capitini photo
Viswanathan Anand photo

“I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.”

J. G. Ballard (1930–2009) British writer

Conversation with George MacBeth on Third Programme (BBC) (1 February 1967), published in The New S.F. (1969), edited by Langdon Jones

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Jacques Ellul photo
Siobhan Fahey photo
Thomas Moore photo

“To sigh, yet feel no pain;
To weep, yet scarce know why;
To sport an hour with Beauty's chain,
Then throw it idly by.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

The Blue Stocking.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Elliott Smith photo

“Don't you know that I love you?sometimes I feel likeonly a cold still lifeonly a frozen still lifethat fell down here to lay beside you.<BR”

Elliott Smith (1969–2003) American singer-songwriter

Angel in the Snow.
Lyrics, New Moon (posthumous, 2007)

Kate Chopin photo
Andrea Dworkin photo
Jacques Barzun photo
Paul Karl Feyerabend photo
Ilana Mercer photo
Lionel Richie photo

“You are more than now;
You are for always.
I can see in you
My dreams come true.
Don't you ever go away.

You make me feel like
There's nothing I can't do.
And when I hold you,
I only want to say
I love you.”

Lionel Richie (1949) American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor

Ballerina Girl.
Song lyrics, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986)

John Muir photo
Chris Cornell photo
Tsai Ing-wen photo

“People feel anxious, especially when we have to wonder whether the president, Taiwan's democratically elected president, will be addressed as president. If he (Ma Ying-jeou) cannot even defend his own title, what can he defend for us?”

Tsai Ing-wen (1956) President of the Republic of China

Taiwan Protesters Trap Chinese Envoy in Hotel, The Washington Post, A12, November 6, 2008, 20 March 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/05/AR2008110504690.html,

Matthew Stover photo
Amit Ray photo
Ron White photo
Geddy Lee photo

“For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.”

Geddy Lee (1953) vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush

Global Bass interview (2000)

Pauline Kael photo

“I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.”

Pauline Kael (1919–2001) American film critic

Quoted by Israel Shenker, "Critics Here Focus on Films As Language Conference Opens," http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50A11FF3E59107A93CAAB1789D95F468785F9 The New York Times (1972-12-28)
Often quoted as "How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him"; referring to George McGovern's loss to Richard Nixon in in the 1972 presidential election.

James Thomson (B.V.) photo

“And all sad scenes and thoughts and feelings vanish
In that sweet sleep no power can ever banish,
That one best sleep which never wakes again.”

James Thomson (B.V.) (1834–1882) Scottish writer (1834-1882)

Part XIX
The City of Dreadful Night (1870&ndash;74)

Erving Goffman photo
William McFee photo
Lin Yutang photo
Gino Severini photo

“.. ambition to surpass Impressionism, destroying the subject's unity of time and place.... [to render its relations to] things that apparently had nothing to do with it, but that in reality were linked to it in my imagination, in my memories or by feeling. In the same canvas I brought together the Arc of Triumph, the Tour Eiffel, the Alps, the head of my father, an autobus, the municipal hall of Pienza, the boulevard…”

Gino Severini (1883–1966) Italian painter

Quote from his article 'Processo e difesa di un pittore d'oggi', L'Arte 5, Rome, September – November, 1931; as cited in Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism, by Christine Poggi, Princeton University Press, 2009, p. 25
quote, referring to his painting 'Memories of a Voyage', Severini painted in 1910-1911.

Frederick William Robertson photo
Tom Waits photo
William Hague photo
Prince photo
Jeremy Irons photo

“I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. An actor like Al Pacino lives to act. I'm not sure though, there's something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.”

Jeremy Irons (1948) English actor

King of all his castles
The New Zealand Herald
2005-05-14
Elaine
Lipworth
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10125499
2011-08-11

Barbara Hepworth photo
Sam Harris photo
Jean de La Bruyère photo

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.”

Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696) 17th-century French writer and philosopher

La vie est une tragédie pour celui qui sent, et une comédie pour celui qui pense.
As quoted in Selected Thoughts from the French: XV Century-XX Century, with English Translations (1913), pp. 132-133, by James Raymond Solly. This may conceivably be a misattribution, because as yet no definite citation of a specific work by La Bruyère has been located, and the statement is very similar to one known to have been made by Horace Walpole in a letter of 31 December 1769: The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.

Thomas Friedman photo
James Bay photo
Frederick Douglass photo

“He treated me as a man… He did not let me feel for a moment that there was any difference in the color of our skins.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

About Abraham Lincoln (1864), as quoted in Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 https://books.google.com/books?id=cwVkgrvctCcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Eric+Foner%22+%22Republicans%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOwdup3aLLAhVK7SYKHZufDmUQ6AEIRjAH#v=onepage&q&f=false, by Eric Foner, p. 6
1860s

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Victor Villaseñor photo
Luis Buñuel photo
Neil Young photo
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