Quotes About Emotions

My first pole position is an emotional and hopefully historic moment as I want to be in F1 for many, many years.

I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.

You can't have a democracy when people don't learn to put themselves in the shoes of another person, who can't think what their policies mean for others.

I can't really speak on her policies, but I feel a certain connection to Hillary Clinton that's just not there with Donald Trump.

I see people that have success, and I see how poised and polished they are and how they handle it. I wonder inside if they feel the same way that I feel.

You find a lot out about people when they're blowing up, as we say, gasping for air, and if they can still hold conversations and be polite.

When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.

I married someone I didn't love. I was too polite to say no.

It's weird, but I'm so empathetic; when I see people dying on hot sauce, I do feel for them. And I'm a Midwestern guy, so I think I'm just naturally nice and polite.

In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.

I think we have great personalities in tennis, but I think they don't dare anymore expressing their emotions and expressing who they are. It's all about being politically correct all the time.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

I die a hundred deaths each day. I die when I see hungry people. Or people who're sad. I die when I know I can do nothing about pollution in Mumbai. I die when I feel helpless when my loved one is in pain.

You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure none has perished since you counted last.

When I pull my hair back in a ponytail, that's how you know I'm having a hard day.

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.

I wanted to show that pop music can be about something else other than the big love songs.

I think that's a big trope in pop music: the blaze-of-glory breakup. It's not one that I particularly identify with, but it's definitely possible.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.