Best 2079 quotes in «emotion quotes» category

Anger has become one of the trendiest emotions of all.  In moderation it can be a righteous force for constructive change.  But its hackneyed omnipresence means the vast majority of its outbreaks are trivial.  The paucity of colorful obscenities is aggravated by an abundance of frivolous fury.

Anger... it's a paralyzing emotion... you can't get anything done.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.

Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

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 realize how widespread envy was.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.

A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.

A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions.

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene I'm doing. You never quite know where your emotions will take you.

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

As actors, emotion is the sand in the sandbox for us. Without emotion, there's nothing to play - and we are playing. We know that. Whether you think we do or not, we know that.

As all nocturnal creatures, I have a tendency to wander about during the night, embracing and relishing in its mysteriousness, unexplained sounds, and thick aura of darkness. As a pianist I was drawn to compositions with the titles of Nocturne and Notturno - from Maria Szymanowska's Nocturne in B-flat to John Field and Frederic Chopin's Nocturnes. The night offers a myriad array of emotions from solace to absolute horror. I tried to infuse some of these terrifying thoughts, as well as solace that only night can bring into Night Soundings.

As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.

As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.

As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

As designers, we do so much with material and construction. It's really architectural; it comes close to building. A scent is so immaterial. It's really about emotion and sensation. Clothes are too, but it's not the same.

As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible; we can say yes or we can say no. It is profoundly liberating.

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.