“In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.” IfsArtReasonFeelingsWould BeTasteSpeechOccasionsObligedTheoreticalDeliberationEvery Occasion Author:William Hazlitt
“I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.” PeopleLittlesBookUseFeelingsTogetherFacesMysteryTreatsInsightInstanceReasonableConsiderationPrintPortraitsFurnitureObligedPortfolios Book:Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Source: Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
“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.” IfsSelfFeelingsSweetWindSpringMurderBlameGuiltEndureRoundsGhostChosenNecksRopeObligedImposingHumiliatingDowntroddenGuilt Trip Author:Mordecai Richler
“For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the world. Maybe also a fear of being forgotten if I don't. But I paid the ultimate price in doing that, because for all those years, I got almost no work done! Some famous authors have written about this: that if they said yes to every request, then they'd never have time to write another book again.” IfsWorldWritingTryingYearsSaidBookDoneFeelingsNiceWrittenUltimatePaidForgottenGenerousBeing NiceThey SaidObligedRequestWork Done Author:Derek Sivers