“Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.” HumansPersonsRealSufferingFeltChristImaginationHuman BeingsChristianityPossibilityDown AndPossessionContactMidstMy ImaginationChristian LoveForeseen Book:The Simone Weil Reader Source: The Simone Weil Reader
“He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits.” HumansLittlesSoulCharacterStoriesYoungGirlLostFeltNiceLosingReflectionFatsAssKneesNever EndingPretty GirlNever Ending Story Author:Jess C Scott
“It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago.” HumansLongHas BeensFeltFearSecurityCapacityFortunateDestructiveLong AgoUnlimitedProtective Author:Smiley Blanton
“In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being” YearsFirstsHumansWisdomEarthFeltHuman BeingsCitiesHolyFirst TimeCreatorIslamic Author:Malcolm X
“Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.” ShouldFirstsHumansFeltInterestHuman BeingsInterestingPaintChairs Author:Edvard Munch
“For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made me nauseous. But it also felt real, and rang bells with my more cynical side.” HumansMadeRealFeltSidesRoomsGunConceptsCynicalBellsLoadedFeesLoaded Gun Author:Eli Roth
“For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.” HumansLongBeautifulFeltHuman BeingsLong TimeSingingFemaleOnly Time Author:Leontyne Price
“I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St. Louis all my life, you know? But I didn't know human beings played them, you know? So the next day I went to Coontz Junior High School and I started on sousaphone, tuba, B-flat baritone, E-flat alto, French horn, trombone.” KnowsHumansSchoolNextFeltHuman BeingsHeardHigh SchoolInstrumentsFlatsChicagoNext DayHornsJuniorsJunior HighBeing PlayedHigh School JuniorTromboneBaritonesLouisvilleTubasFrench Horn Author:Quincy Jones
“I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.” HumansFeltAbilityInfluenceImpactI RealizedClosestLinkedSuperpowerViral Author:Emerson Spartz
“In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.” MenWorldHumansSoulCountryStatesEarthChristianAmericaNationsFeltReligiousUnitedCommonUnited StatesGreaterInfluenceHuman NatureAuthorityProofHypocrisyEnlightenedConformitySovereignUtility Book:Democracy in America: Book One Source: Democracy in America: Book One
“I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantHumansArtWholeFeltAttentionStyleProductsAchievementUniqueArt IsRecognitionPay AttentionAccomplishmentCoastHuman ExperienceCarpet Author:Bill Reid
“The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.” HumansFeltEffortConsciousnessLimitsFinalsObscurePretensionHuman Knowledge Author:Reinhold Niebuhr