Felt Quotes - Page 5

• I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

  Troy Polamalu

  Children, Thinking, Tough

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• Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral seriousness. Her argument builds a powerful emotional force, a sense of deep inevitability. . . . It is not often that a work of such dark conclusions has felt so hopeful and brave.

  Mark Kingwell

  Powerful, Book, Dark

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• You have to be tougher. You have to learn the way to beat your path through, to make yourself felt, and make yourself necessary.

  Grace Coddington

  Way, Path, Beats

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• [...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Church, Saws

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.171, Harper Collins

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• I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.

  Nathalie Handal

  Country, Children, Writing

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• I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

  Susan Glaspell

  Writing, Newspapers, Made

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• How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.

  Athol Fugard

  Beach, Writing, Dark

  Athol Fugard (1983). “Notebooks, 1960-1977”

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• September is my favourite month, particularly in Cornwall. I felt, even as a child, that if you get a wonderful day in September, you think: This could be one of the last, the summer is nearly over. If you get a wonderful day in May, you think: So what, theres more coming.

  Tim Rice

  Summer, Children, Thinking

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• I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

  Samantha Shannon

  Creating, World, Geek

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• Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.

  Warren Moon

  Team, Responsibility, Race

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• I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

  Gabrielle

  Mother, Father, Race

  "In 'Storied Life,' Characters Come With A Reading List". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 28, 2014.

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• Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Writing, Heart, Simple

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• Sing songs that none have sung, think thoughts that ne'er in the brain have rung,
  Walk in paths that none have trod, weep tears as none have shed for God,
  Give peace to all to whom none other gave,
  Claim him your own who's everywhere disclaimed.
  Love all with love that none have felt and
  Brave the battle of life with strength unchained.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Song, Healing, Thinking

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• I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.

  Katharine Weymouth

  New York, Growing Up, Kids

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• Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.

  Bernard Berenson

  Years, Play, Creative

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• Marriage is rarely bliss
  But, surely it would be worse
  As particles to pelt
  At thousands of miles per sec
  About a universe
  In which a lover's kiss
  Would either not be felt
  Or break the loved one's neck.

  W. H. Auden

  Kissing, Would Be, Necks

  "After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics". Poem by W. H. Auden, 1961.

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• Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to tempt the fates. Themoment I felt sure I had everything under control would invariably be the moment right before the principal called to report that one of my sons had just driven somebody's motorcycle through the high school gymnasium.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, School, Fate

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• Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; don't react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Acceptance, Insults You

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• A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled with a friend of earlier days and from then on the two never spoke. The day the friend died an associate found the ultra-dignified gentleman staring through the window. When he came out of his reverie, he soliloquized with a sigh, ""He was the last to call me John."" Is any man really entitled to regard himself a success who has failed to inspire at least a goodly number of fellow mortals to greet him by his first name?

  B. C. Forbes

  Friendship, Men, Numbers

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• Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Winning, Advice, Shining

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.

  Rene Descartes

  Situations In Life, Worthwhile Things, Judging

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• In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Book, Loss, Journey

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.80, Library of America

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• And sometimes I remember days of old
  When fellowship seemed not so far to seek,
  And all the world and I seemed much less cold,
  And at the rainbow's foot lay surely gold,
  And hope felt strong, and life itself not weak.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Feet, Rainbow

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.495, Delphi Classics

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• O Eternal God, now may it please you to burn in love so that we become the limbs fashioned in the love you felt when you begot your Son at the first dawn before all creation. And consider this need which falls upon us, take it from us for the sake of your Son, and lead us to the joy of your salvation.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  God, Fall, Love You

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• I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

  Sean O Faolain

  Earth, Disguise

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