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“Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Wells May I Can Helping Feelings Wanted Speak Poor Half Know How Trouble Dog Strange Sorry Dumb Ems Our Words Being Sorry Dumb Things

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.”

People Ifs Men May Feelings Problem Able Young Clear Fire Building Machines And Love Notion Math Smoke Ease Right Thing Resolution Pipe Doing The Right Thing

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.”

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals

“If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.”

People Ifs Humans Feelings Able Human Nature

Author:Mencius

“As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a black man strikes back he's an extremist, he's supposed to sit passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, verbal or otherwise, he's supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself, then he's an extremist.”

Ifs Men Way Trying Kind Long Doe Matter Feelings Black White Enemy And Love No Matter What Strikes White Man Alright Extremist Strike Back

Author:Malcolm X

“And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He is forever doing good; from loving all, and living for all; from knowing that if not all, yet millions on millions are grateful to Him, and will be forever.”

Ifs Heart Feelings Joy Christ Millions Forever Knowing Spring Grateful Delight Doing Good Great Hearts

Book:The Good News of God: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Good News of God: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely accord with our true policy and interest. If they do not, to observe a proper line of conduct for promoting the one, and avoiding offence to the other, will be a work of great difficulty.”

People Ifs May Feelings Wish Interest Lines Policy Difficulty Reasoning Avoiding Promoting Accord Offence

Book:The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

“If you vent anger with the object of spreading your toxic feelings, the result will have nothing to do with healing. Your anger is your weapon. On the other hand, if you release anger the way you'd expel a rock from your shoe, your intention clearly has healing behind it. Once the anger starts flowing, both of these alternatives might feel the same. Anger is anger. But if you have a healing intention, two things will happen: you will feel more peaceful after your anger has been released, and you will feel like an old, fixed belief in enemies and injustice has started to move.”

“If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.”

Ifs Mean Self Whole Feelings Nations Discipline Newspapers Self Respect

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.”

Ifs Knows Trying Stills Real Feelings Eye Spirit Attention Know How Too Much Information Identity Travel Essence Wide Mysterious Tunes Reverence Inward Needles Factual Rapport

Author:Lawrence Durrell

“Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.”

“A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.”

Ifs Feelings Records Paint Statements Painter Chairs Entity

Author:Bob Dylan

“There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to do a comedy whose chief characters are photographic enlargements. Those people we see in doorways. Newlyweds, sergeants, dead girls, an anonymous crowd full of mustaches and wrinkles. It should be terrible. If I focus it well, it will possess pathos without consolation. In the midst of those people I will place an authentic fairy.”

“I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience.”

Ifs I Can Feelings Film Seeing Products Finals Feel Good

Author:Johnny Depp

“If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.”

Ifs Feelings Loss Saws Car Rottweilers Dobermans

Author:Pauline Kael

“Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.”

Ifs Believe May Feelings Imagination Love Is Seeing Pure Sentimental Pure Love

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.”

Ifs Should Mind May Feelings Would Be Creatures Intellectual Lows Scales Conception Thinker Hello

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“Grief is just so scary.... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.”

Ifs Feelings Parent Rooms Grief Cry Tears Huge Rivers My Family Angry Scary Dinner Cried Mississippi Mississippi River

Author:Anne Lamott

“I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection”

Ifs Heart Use Feelings Simple My Heart Gratitude Lays Notes Dear Affection Concerts Daddy Simple Words Filial

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“If you approach a film with the feeling that you are going to have some impact on society then you're liable to get carried away with yourself. Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, "Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.”

Ifs Feelings Remember Film Approach Impact Liable Analyzing Carried Away Hitchcock Impact On Society

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.”

Ifs I Can Helping Feelings Fall Feet Occasions Feet On The Ground Rare Occasion

Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.”

Ifs Self Feelings Sweet Wind Spring Murder Blame Guilt Endure Rounds Ghost Chosen Necks Rope Obliged Imposing Humiliating Downtrodden Guilt Trip

Author:Mordecai Richler

“The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but others beginning to think in different ways. And the black population was transformed, having risen up in mass action for the first time, feeling its power, knowing now that if the old order could be shaken it could be toppled.”

Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Different Feelings Action Order Black White Knowing Events Mass First Time Population Defense Different Ways Transformed Stubborn Segregation Risen

Author:Howard Zinn

“Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.”

Ifs Helping Feelings Dream Lost Process Difficult Risk Regret Normal Prison Mourning Temporary Lost Dreams Unrealized Dreams

Book:How Did I Get Here?: Finding Your Way to Renewed Hope and Happiness When Life and Love Take Unexpected Turns

Source: How Did I Get Here?: Finding Your Way to Renewed Hope and Happiness When Life and Love Take Unexpected Turns

“You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.”

Ifs Made Feelings Harmony

Book:Mr g: A Novel About the Creation

Source: Mr g: A Novel About the Creation

“The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned - allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.”

“This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end each program by saying, 'You've made this day a special day by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you. And I like you just the way you are.' And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service.”

“Find one person in the audience and sing to them with all of your heart. And then cast a spell over them. Hoss, if you can't do it with feeling - don't.”

Ifs Heart Persons Feelings Audience Casts Spells

Author:Patsy Cline

“Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder how would you feel if you defended a man charged with murder, who was as innocent as any hon. member in this House at this very moment, who was convicted; whose appeal was dismissed, who was executed; and six months later the star witness for the Crown admitted that he, himself, had committed the murder and blamed it on the accused? That experience will never be effaced from my memory.”

“Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.”

Ifs Enough Feelings Happens Events Strange Infinite Boundaries Norm Abnormal Anything Can Happen No Boundaries

Book:Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987

Source: Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987

“I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?”

Ifs Feels Book Feelings Towns Gender Related Restaurants Judged Embarrassment Lingering Spinsters

Author:Gene Weingarten

“If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.”

Ifs Want Feelings Good Life Outlets Constructive

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

“I think it's just that the private lives of our public leaders are so much more exposed today that if you're sensitive to protecting your family, it's much harder to not get defensive when somebody asks you those really rude questions about what your wife and your children are thinking and feeling at that exact moment.”

Ifs Thinking Children Moments Feelings Today Asks Leader Wife Harder Our Children Our Family Your Children Sensitive Exposed Rude Private Life

Author:Stephen Ambrose

“Though my heart is filled with feelings I want to convey You see, I can't express them in words If I had not met you I wouldn't even have such an embarrassing pain”

Ifs Want Heart I Can Feelings Pain My Heart Mets Filled Embarrassing

Author:Ayumi Hamasaki

“I know that when I look at today’s Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can’t coexist with a strong social safety net; if you’re going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can’t make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it’s an agonizing issue.”

“Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.”

Ifs Feelings Form Artist Fit Activity Conscious Stronger Prepared Engaged Sincere Moderates Corresponding Being Sincere

Author:Herbert Read

“She looks like the real thing She tastes like the real thing My fake plastic love But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling If I just turn and run.”

Ifs Looks I Can Real Helping Feelings Taste Blow Ran Fake Plastic Ceilings Real Things Radiohead

Author:Thom Yorke

“It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and if the new lot let us down, we can do it again!" It was that proud, menacing confidence which made the French revolution special. But it's not around in 21st-century Europe. After 1989, the people handed over liberty to the experts. Will they ever want it back?”

People Ifs Want Made Real Done Feelings Can Do Liberty Special Century Missing Revolution Proud Europe Features Experts 21st Century French Revolution

Author:Neal Ascherson

“Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.”

Ifs Feelings Happens Vision Conviction

Book:Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)

Source: Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)

“To me, feeling good about yourself as you get older is all about your attitude - if you think you're old, you'll feel old.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Feelings Attitude Feel Good About Yourself Old You

Author:Lulu

“Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.”

Ifs World Feelings Imagine Nuclear Dozen Radiation Precise Manipulate Calculating

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.”

Ifs Giving Feelings Would Be Expression If I Could Unconscious

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

“the place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where she can live for herself alone.. (it) looked like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge - essentially druidic in it appearance, it gives the feeling that an ancient race might turn up at any moment and renew an ageless rite there.”

Ifs Giving Moments Feelings Might Lasts Turns Race Crosses Ancient Appearance Lovely Spots Islands Easter Rite Massachusetts Forsaken Ageless Stonehenge Gloucester Easter Island

Author:Marsden Hartley

“I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.”

Ifs Want Feelings Desire Hate I Hate Ill

Book:Room at the top

Source: Room at the top

“One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.”

“The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.”

“Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence.”

Ifs Way Doe Important Feelings Body Desire Force Social Influence Activity Notion Mediums Perceive Meaningless Transcendence Formation Subjectivity

Author:Susan McClary

“Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.”

Ifs Men Humans Real Enough Feelings Problem Moving Political Loss Views Virtue Economic Ought Modest Masculinity Confusing Usefulness Had Enough Tackling Maleness

Author:Ellen Willis

“So remember, if you're feeling bitter - or sorry for yourself about what you've done, and how much good you've accomplished - or if you find yourself more than anyone else talking about the good you've done, you're doing it for the wrong reasons, because it should be the default.”

Ifs Should Reason Done Feelings Remember Talking Sorry Bitter Accomplished Finding Yourself Default Wrong Reasons

Author:Ysabella Brave

“We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth sense"' is considered a measure of the good clinician. But being a good doctor also requires sticking with the best medical evidence, even if it contradicts your personal experience. We need to distinguish between gut feeling and testable knowledge, between hunches and empirically tested evidence.”

Source: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

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