Felt Quotes - Page 20

• To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Feelings, Too Much, Ends

  "Dorothy and Red". Book by Vincent Sheean, 1963.

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• It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.

  Tony Parsons

  Mother, Father, Thumbs Up

  "When is the right time to have a baby?", www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2010.

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• In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

  Chris Robinson

  Kind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

  Thomas Campbell

  Gratitude, Woe, Philanthropy

  Thomas Campbell (1822). “Poetical Works”, p.95

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• Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

  George P. Baker

  Immature, Impulse, Humans

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• The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.

  Lu Xun

  Mean, Important, Movement

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• I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

  Lord Byron

  Names, Vices, Noble

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• I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.

  Charles A. Dana

  Proud, Divine, Providence

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• I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

  Cormac McCarthy

  House, Citizens, Respectable

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• I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

  Peter Wright

  Life, Class, Drawing

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• It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie.

  John Robinson

  Beach, Fun, Crazy

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• She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.

  Dan Brown

  Loneliness, Heart, Eye

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.76, Knopf

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• A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.

  Carol Shields

  Heart, Love Is, Nurse

  Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.7, Penguin

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• I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Army, May, Proud

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• The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.

  Edward Young

  Sweet, Quality, Tails

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• There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects.

  John Madden

  World, Narrative, Subjects

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• Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.

  Kenneth Clark

  Beautiful, Broken, Transition

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

  John Locke

  Pain, Loss, Shapes

  John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very alienated. People felt not part of a community, but like isolated units that were afraid of interaction, of contact, that were lonely.

  Assata Shakur

  Lonely, War, People

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• That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

  Don Marquis

  Atheism, Saws, Puritan

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.69, Doubleday

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• I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Issues, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most of the movies that I've made that I really felt good about and cared about made very little money anyway, so I'm not particularly worried about people downloading and sharing them.

  Edward Norton

  People, Littles, Worried

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.

  Naomi Watts

  Mirrors, Looks, Growing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally. Then I'll take a teeny movie when I need to work on myself and become a better actor.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Regret, Needs, Actors

  "What Made Ginnifer Goodwin 'Freak The Fudge Out?'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 7, 2013.

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• One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because of the way we ACT. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you WISH you felt.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Thinking, Feelings, Wish

  "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 15, 2009.

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