All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. – John Ruskin
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? – Ivan Turgenev
I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings. – J. Cole
While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you. – Jonathan Haidt
I’ve been writing poems since I was in the Navy – to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners. – Jimmy Carter
Even ordinary people aren’t ordinary, not really. They’re filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise. – Julianne Moore
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. – John Wooden
I’ve always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn’t be human. – Iris Dement
I’m not really afraid of things that are imaginary. I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings. Having a feeling is never going to kill you. – Julianne Moore
Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work. – James Rosenquist
I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music. – John Frusciante
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings – about human feelings and frailties. – Anne Stevenson
Any ‘artist’ makes a living by expressing what others can’t – because they’re unaware of their feelings, they’re too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. – Chuck Palahniuk
Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor. – Jane Pauley
The thing you see in survivors is that they express feelings – I won’t say some of the things they tell their doctors, when doctors tell them they’re going to die in six months. Boy, do they let the doctor know how they feel about that statement. – Bernie Siegel
Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love. – Alicia Machado
I’ve never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate. – Janet Jackson
Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings. – Billy Graham
If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days. – Alain de Botton
We’re all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can’t. Well, there’s also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings. – Janet Jackson
I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well. – Antonio Damasio
My feelings on homosexuality are unequivocal. I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. My only reservation is marriage. – Carl Paladino