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Feelings Quotes


"Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it."


"Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link."


"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of."


"Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard."


"Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man."


"Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors."


"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."


"I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high."


"A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy."


"And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously."


"I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid."


"When you read a script, you get a feeling from it."


"A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless."


"She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings."


"I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom."


"I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you."


"I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow."


"When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings."


"It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better."


"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."


"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."


"I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward."
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