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“Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.”

People Way Long Has Beens Use Past Purpose Order Passion Emotion Modern Long Time Glory Purity Phenomenon Fundamentalism Oppressed Evoke Islamists

Author:Azar Nafisi

“We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.”

Use Language Strong Powerful Emotion Evoke Powerful Emotions

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.”

Art Emotion Wonderful Failing Mark Contemplation Works Of Art Fidelity Evoke Tease Recurrence

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.”

Thinking Feels Sin Emotion Color Elements Red Sexy Temptation Combination Seduction Empowered Irresistible Evoke

Author:Christina Aguilera

“The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.”

Men World Giving Hands Spirit Can Do Perfect Emotion Divine Higher Instruments Profound Tone Serving Finest Evoke Exalted Humbling

Book:Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

“It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.”

Difficult Emotion Metaphor Cinema Attempting Evoke Subtlety

Author:Conrad Hall

“I have a power word that I use-when I qualified for the Olympics in 2008, it was fighter. That way when I'm in the race and I get to those dark moments, I can think of the word and it evokes that emotion for me.”

Thinking Way I Can Moments Use Dark Race Emotion Fighter Olympics Qualified Evoke Dark Moments

Author:Kara Goucher

“... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.”

Firsts Persons Real Character Feelings Joy Understanding Emotion Fiction Essentials Elements Improvement Novelists Misfortunes Evoke Factual Real Person Simplification Suppressing

Author:Marcel Proust

“I hope to evoke emotion in others, help them escape for even just a little while into different worlds, different times and different thoughts. Whenever I'm able to lend my name to worthy causes and try and change this world for the better I feel like my work is a success.”

World Feels Trying Littles Different Helping Able Names Causes Emotion This World Worthy Evoke Different Worlds Different Times Worthy Causes

Author:James Preston Rogers

“The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.”

Firsts May Ideas Form Certain Sound Memories Emotion Events Periods Relation Crisis Titles Thrown Stillness Curves Evoke

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.”

Ifs Home Felt Emotion Color Amount Evoke

Author:Nate Berkus

“Really, a nightmare just really has to evoke some sort of, we call it, dysphoric emotion or something uncomfortable. You could be sad, you could be unhappy; you could be scared, anxious. But traditionally, the definition is you have to awaken from this nightmare.”

Emotion Definitions Scared Unhappy Uncomfortable Nightmare Anxious Evoke

Author:Shelby Harris