Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marie Lu

Without emotion, what's the point of being human?

Theodore Roosevelt

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matt Kemp

I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part.

Max Brooks

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

Matthew Perry

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

Martin Schulz

European policy is always an interplay of rationality and emotion.

Laura Marling

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

Lisa Leslie

I tend not to get too emotional about things.

John Ridley

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.

Nick Carter

I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!

Missy Peregrym

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head…And I don’t think that should get any easier.

Paulo Coelho

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

Mariano Rivera

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

Nigella Lawson

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

Nicolas Cage

First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director.

Noomi Rapace

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

Nat King Cole

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Mili Avital

I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.

Mike Mills

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.

John Wooden

Never let your emotions overrule your head.

Marianne Williamson

If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.

Merrill Markoe

As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.

Martina Hingis

I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it.

Michael Giacchino

Brad Bird is fond of saying that music is the easiest thing that can derail a film because if it slightly goes a degree off track it will take the viewer in the wrong emotional direction. To work with people who actually care about that is a good thing.

Michael Arndt

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

Paul Cezanne

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Patti LuPone

In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.

Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Madonna Ciccone

I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that music, though, was it seemed devoid of emotion. There wasn't a lot that felt personal.