Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? – Bertrand Russell
I don’t claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there’s a basis to them, and that’s why they’re more popular than other TV comedies. There’s a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling. – Adrian Edmondson
When they write a bad review, and you agree with it, that’s the worst feeling. When you know you’ve done what you wanted and the best you could and you love the outcome, then you look at everything differently. Not everyone’s going to love everything you do. – Albert Hammond, Jr.
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry. – B. F. Skinner
In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release. – Carl Honore
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. – Alfred Adler
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at ‘proper’ books, which means books without pictures. – Anthony Browne
I’ve only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It’s the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something. – Colonel Sanders
That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet. – Bear Grylls
There is a feeling among the Arabs – encouraging terrorist activity is part of the broad new Arab strategy – that sooner or later, Israel will be forced to withdraw from Samaria, Judea and Gaza. – Ariel Sharon
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things. – Brian Eno
Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic. – Catherine Tate
If you compromise, and then you succeed, that’s another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it’s two failures at least. – Alexander Chee
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better. – Brian Eno
You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don’t have to. – Andy Murray
I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude. – Anton Seidl
I get the same feeling walking into the Opry House as I do when I see one of my heroes. – Blake Shelton
To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can’t even tell you. – Blair Underwood
Maybe ‘Can’t Stop Feeling’ and ‘Turn It On’ we’ll just release as singles. It’s a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own. – Alex Kapranos
I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That’s the only way I can express it. – Chiwetel Ejiofor
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard. – Benjamin Jowett
What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms. – Brendan Myers