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Quotes About Emotion

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?
~ Nancy Astor
Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."Clara: "What?"Tucker: "You.
~ Cynthia Hand, Unearthly
Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.
~ Kevin Roberts
For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.
~ Marc Riboud
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
~ Seth Godin
Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.
~ Gary Hamel
The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.
~ John Ruskin
Yelling is a form of publishing
~ Margaret Atwood
Listen for "Moments" — and Make it Personal
~ Unknown
I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I haven't said before. You are nothing I haven't felt before.
~ Tegan Quin
You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva." he flattened me into the side of the car. I was pinned by six feet, two inches of violently aroused male.
~ Sylvia Day
When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like , 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.
~ Afrojack
... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge.
~ Unknown
You walked out of my dreams and into my car.
~ Johnny Burnette
I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.
~ Jennifer Worth
How do we work with our minds when we meet our match? Rather than indulge or reject our experience, we can somehow let the energy of the emotion, the quality of what we're feeling, pierce us to the heart. This is easier said than done, but it's a noble way to live. It's definitely the path of compassion—the path of cultivating human bravery and kindheartedness. In the teachings of Buddhism, we
~ Pema Chodron
Fear is a universal experience. Even the smallest insect feels it.
~ Pema Chodron
An emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course. One and a half minutes, that's all. When it lasts any longer, which it usually does, it's because we've chosen to rekindle it.
~ Pema Chodron
Her feeling for Mr Brooks was so much the most important part of her life that it seemed like something which did not belong to her, but which she had to carry about with her, at work or in her room, there was no difference. She had a kind of affection, too, for the love itself, which was so strong, but maintained itself on so little. There had been a time, not at all long ago, when she hadn't had this responsibility, but it was hard for her to remember how she had felt then.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Mama always used to say that love is never lost, even if it's not returned in the way you hope or expect. "Put it on out there," she said. "Lay your heart on the line, and don't be afraid of getting it broken. Broken hearts heal. Guarded hearts just turn to stone.
~ Unknown
How many men have asked you to marry them?' 'Not a lot. Most had too strong an instinct for self-preservation.
~ Penelope Lively
Claudia types. She has to pause from time to time to shake sand from the typewriter. She types partly from expediency and partly to exorcise what is now printed on her eyeballs. She tries to reduce to words what she has seen and thought. She types also because she is dog-tired, thirsty, aching and bad-tempered and if she does not occupy herself she might give away some of this, and be ashamed.
~ Penelope Lively
Sixty-seven-year-old Claudia, on a pavement awash with packaged American matrons, crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That, inside the head, everything happens at once.
~ Penelope Lively