“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.” IfsKnowsMenFeelsHas BeensBookPastLeftAnswersSilentLibraryGreat MenGood ManShelvesFaithfulnessIntroductionGreat Love Author:John Bright
“There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?” MenInspirationalFeelsMayEndsShowsFeelingsMightMotivationalSufferingAnswersAnimalAliveDogSpringTablesNervesNailsIncapableVeinsBarbarians Author:Voltaire
“Just to be true to myself, which is why I did this movie. I figured everyone was going to freak out and say, 'Why would you do that after Dorothy Dandridge?' My answer is 'Because I can.' And that feels really good to be comfortable saying that.” FeelsI CanActorsAnswersComfortableBeing TrueMovieFreakBecause I CanTrue To Myself Author:Halle Berry
“You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFeelsYearsKindStatesSeemsVoiceAnswersGrowingEffectsMovementHappeningsToughStartingActiveBest WayCollectivesEmergingDisillusionedCampaigningDazed Author:Scarlett Johansson
“There are things which are without answers, and there is nobody who can explain them. Either we feel them and sense them, or not. Sometimes we just give up and carry on.” GivingFeelsSometimesAnswersGiving UpJust Give Up Author:Andrey Zvyagintsev
“Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.” FeelsMindHardGirlAsksIndividualAnswersAsk MeSensibilityMuseVaryHard Questions Author:Alexander Wang
“Why so much interest in Uganda? Why are American conservatives lobbing for hate? The answer is that they feel they have lost the culture war here at home and are exporting their outdated ideas to the developing world.” WorldFeelsIdeasWarHomeHateCultureLostInterestAnswersDevelopingOutdatedUgandaExporting Author:Roger Ross Williams
“We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.” NeedsFeelsBookDifferentStoriesHandsAnswersReaderDegreesSatisfactionArise Author:Amy Tan
“It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?” FeelsYearsBelieveDoeLightHappensWould BeDiesAnswersMillionsPersonalityPersistComfortingNapsLaptopsPlugs Book:Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife Source: Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife
“I wanted to feel good about the way I looked. I didn't understand why style had to be sacrificed for sports technology. I found when going to the gym women were wearing their own tees, without the technology. I started to think, does it make you run faster if you wear that terrible color or sweat less if you wear that horrible fabric? And I challenged it, and the answers were not there to why we were being given poor design work. It was something I wanted to bring to women's wardrobes.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsDoeRunningWantedFoundGivenSportsAnswersPoorTechnologyStyleDesignColorTerribleHorribleFeel GoodFasterWorking ItGymSweatFabricWardrobeTeesDesign Work Author:Stella McCartney
“The sanctions and travel restrictions would have to be far more comprehensive to be truly painful for [Vladimir] Putin and his inner circle. And the new middle class should also feel the effects of what he is doing. For instance, we should ask those who wish to enter the EU whether they have visited illegally occupied Crimea in the last few months and, if the answer is "yes," deny them a visa.” IfsFeelsShouldLastsAsksWishAnswersClassMiddleEffectsMonthsPainfulDenyCirclesInstanceMiddle ClassRestrictionPutinComprehensiveSanctionsVisaCrimea Author:Garry Kasparov
“People want black and white answers, but it's not one thing or another. I think the only way we're going to make good things is to inspire people and make them feel as though what they're watching is real.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFeelsRealBlackWhiteAnswersOne ThingInspireGood ThingsBlack And White Author:Kim Longinotto
“I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.” FeelsArtBigsFormLanguageAnswersStyleListeningComplexesSentencesEnglish LanguageExpressiveInterviewersLaconic Author:Andy Warhol
“The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In this lies our greatest debt to the Renaissance, that it instituted the welfare of men as the end of all action.” MenFeelsShouldEndsSelfActionUsedLyingPurposeUniverseIndividualAnswersAuthorityDebtCommandUsed To BeWelfareShould IRenaissanceEmancipation Book:Venetian and North Italian Schools Source: Venetian and North Italian Schools
“Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel weird to be so formal about it, but if you're not used to doing it, then there's no shame in retraining yourself.” IfsFeelsFeelingsUsedAnswersShameNotionFormal Author:Carolyn Hax
“I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.” GivingFeelsFilmEasyAnswersProvoking Author:Juliette Binoche
“After I was released, people used to keep asking me, 'what's it like to be free? And it was very difficult for me to answer. I'd always felt free. As far as my state of mind was concerned, I didn't feel any different...People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.” PeopleFeelsMindMadeDifferentStatesUsedChoicesAsksFeltDifficultAnswersSacrificeConcernedAskingAsk MeState Of MindDifferent Peoples Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."” IfsMenFeelsWellsDoeStillsAgeRememberSpeakAnswersHe ManPoetMastersMadSuitsFurious Author:Plato
“With a profession such as investing, people see the 'doing' as the buying and selling. It is difficult to come home from work, and answer your spouse's question, 'what did you do today?' with 'well, I read a lot, and I talked a little.' If you're not buying or selling, you may feel you aren't doing anything.” PeopleIfsFeelsWellsMayLittlesHomeTodayDifficultAnswersInvestingProfessionSellingBuyingComing HomeSpouseBuying And Selling Author:Dave Abrams
“The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not traveling at the same speed you are. And you actually start to feel disturbed by people who have a sense of restfulness to their existence.” PeopleFeelsAnswersExistenceTragedySpeedComplexityDisturbedVelocity Author:David Whyte