“A beautiful country is a dream-like illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end.” EndsCountryDreamBeautifulForceEmotionEnemyIllusionNegativeStrifeNegative EmotionsBeautiful Country Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
“Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?” FeelsPersonsCountryEmotionLove YouOughtLove Someone Book:Essays Source: Essays
“I'm just made differently. Man, I just love being an American, I love my country. But it happened to me during the Nixon time, especially pre-Watergate, that as I watched Nixon for the first time in my life I felt shame. I had to analyze myself. What is this emotion? I realized that my government was separate from my country. It was the first time I ever felt ashamed of the government, not the country.” MenFirstsMadeCountryGovernmentFeltLove IsEmotionHappenedFirst TimeShameI RealizedAshamedWatergate Author:John Fogerty
“Country music and the world will miss George Jones. He was someone who set a high standard in our industry for great music and lyrics that tapped into the emotions of the human heart at a very deep level. His music has touched the lives of country music lovers for over five decades. My prayers are with his family and I pray for the repose of his soul. May you rest in peace, brother.” WorldHumansHeartMaySoulCountryPrayerLevelsEmotionFiveMissingBrotherIndustryPrayingLoversStandardsDecadesTouchedHuman HeartI PrayReposeGreat MusicVery DeepHigh StandardsRest In PeaceMusic LoverGeorge JonesMusic And Lyrics Author:Collin Raye
“The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.” MenNeedsShouldCountryPoliticsEmotionOpinionHe ManPureSelfishInstantConstituentsInfusion Book:Essays, lectures and orations Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.” CountryPastLosesAnimalEmotionWallDestroyedFlamesEchoes Author:Czeslaw Milosz
“Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.” PeopleWorldWantCountryPlayUseEarthMovingPeaceJusticeEmotionRolesHealthMassBillionsThanksSoccerTriggersInfluentialPeace JusticePositive EmotionsFifa Author:Pope Francis
“Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try.” PeopleTryingYearsPersonsHas BeensCountryHardSongEmotionTechnologyWrittenFashionFieldsYears AgoPaintContraryVansRenoir Author:Bob Dylan
“[David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the emotion behind those images that's meant the most to me over the years. It's the way David Lean can put feeling on film. The way he shows a whole landscape of the spirit. For me, that's the real geography of David Lean country. And that's why, in a David Lean movie, there's no such thing as an empty landscape.” WayYearsRealCountryWholeShowsFeelingsFilmSpiritEmotionBehindsForeverPhotographyEmptyLandscapeMemorableGeographyStay With MeGood PhotographyStay With Me Forever Author:Martin Scorsese
“The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a perpetual present. in the US everything human is artificial. The country is without hope. What is arresting here is ... both the absence of architecture in the cities and the dizzying absence of emotion and character in the faces and bodies.” HumansCountryCharacterBodyPastFacesEmotionCitiesArchitectureAbsenceAuthenticityArtificialPerpetualFoundingWithout HopeArresting Author:Jean Baudrillard
“I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.” KnowsCountryLanguageEmotionSingingSingers Author:PJ Harvey
“We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.” CountryAmericaSufferingLinesResultsEmotionPovertyTerribleToughTraditionDebateOpennessCitizenshipAvoidingDiscourseSignalsCivicsMindlessNervousnessTough Things Author:Geneva Overholser
“When terrorism is directly aiming at Western countries, it is automatically and abnormally enlarged in order to instill emotions and fear. However, when attacks happen in the Middle East, is it conveniently downplayed and less talked about. Unless they would benefit more from a heavy coverage.” CountryHappensOrderEmotionMiddleBenefitsWesternHeavyTerrorismEastMiddle EastCoverageInstill Author:Tariq Ramadan