Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.

Rolf Harris

I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.

Roland Gift

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

Susan Smith

Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions

Susan Orlean

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

Stuart Wilde

One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.

Robert Glasper

Instead of hearing, "Oh, he's good," I'd rather hear, "Wow, you changed my feelings today, you made me feel different."

Samuel Johnson

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

Rumer Willis

I've been on a plane before with more money in jewelry than my life insurance policy, and it's one of the scariest feelings in the world... if you lose it, you have to pay for it yourself, and you don't even get to keep it!

Robert Peel

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Tony Gonzalez

I'm hungry. I want the ball. That's the feeling you want. When you get that feeling, you can't be stopped.

Stephen Dorff

I'm always feeling like I have to do some bad action movie for money.

Stephen Dorff

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

Stephen Daldry

You have to trust your own instincts about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate and trust your own feelings about what you can and can't show for yourself, and it'll be different for everybody.

Stephen Covey

We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.

Vaclav Havel

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

Vaclav Havel

Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.

Suzanne Collins

So what I'd really like is to try and conceal him somewhere safe, then go hunt, and come back and collect him. But I have a feeling his ego isn't going to go for that suggestion.

Suzanne Collins

If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.

Suzanne Collins

You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.

Stephen King

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Stephen King

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

Stephen King

My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind.

Tiesto

There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival.

Thomas Carlyle

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Tony Fadell

I’m always doubtful. Everything I do is always doubtful. When you’re trying to differentiate, there’s going to be this gut sense, is this right? If you’re not having doubt, then you’re not pushing it hard enough, or you’re not looking at the details close enough. You need to be feeling that doubt every single day.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't consider my private feelings to be relevant in any way, actually.

Stanislaw Lem

I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.

Sigourney Weaver

What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.

Sigmund Freud

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

Sigmund Freud

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world.

Shirley Manson

We should never listen to our feelings. They lead us astray.

Shirley Manson

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.