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Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.
I've always had this tremendous and very deep feeling of knowing my purpose, you know? It never dawned on me, it always very much known.
Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.
Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.
The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one's being to be experienced, explored, enriched and, thereby, educated.
Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
We had all been feeling this, about the Buffy/Riley relationship. It never had the fire that Buffy/Angel did. It wasn't really meant to.
The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.
I really grew up more of a people pleaser and I just wanted to make people happy, and maybe didn't always say exactly how I was feeling.
Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.
The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.
Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.
Sometimes you are working and you feel like walking out into the terrace, stretching, looking out and feeling the night air on your face.
You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.
Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.
After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.
Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.
How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.
miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.
No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings.
Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.
Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.
I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.
Even when you are feeling down, you have to live your life positively, that way, happy days and happy feelings will come to you some day.
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.
Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.
Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.
I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind.
I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.
Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.
What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?
There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work.
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.
The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.
The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.
Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.
I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.