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Quotes About Feeling

Warned by some of his advisers that Stalin would devour whole countries after the war, Roosevelt's feeling was that "Stalin is not that kind of man.
~ Richard Bernstein
John the Baptist set an ideal example of this. His message was not about his experiences or what he felt about God, but about Jesus. When
~ Richard D. Phillips
Feeling became fashionable and emotion became a theatre in which people were players who no longer knew who they were off the stage.
~ Richard Flanagan
Her skin seemed to bum with countless harts.
~ Richard Laymon
The atmosphere in here—
~ Richard Matheson
Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
~ Richard Russo
I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
~ Richard Wright
I felt that without a common bond uniting men, without a continuous current of shared thought and feeling circulating through the social system, like blood coursing through the body, there could be no living worthy of being called human.
~ Richard Wright
I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
~ Richard Wright
But a vague hunger would come over me for books, books that opened up new avenues of feeling and seeing...
~ Richard Wright
This tendency of freely juxtaposing totally unrelated images and symbols and then tying them into some overall concept, mood, feeling, is a trait of Negro thinking and that has always fascinated me.
~ Richard Wright
He's up there talkin',' he muttered scornfully. 'Doesn't he talk?' The tone of contempt was oil on the troubled waters of William's feelings. 'I've just bit him hard,' he said modestly.
~ Richmal Crompton
The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle.
~ Rick Riordan
I turned and found Dionysus standing there, still in his black suit. Walk with me," he said. Where to?" I asked suspiciously. Just to the campfire," he said. "I was beginning to feel better, so I thought I would talk with you a bit. You always manage to annoy me." Uh, thanks.
~ Rick Riordan
She's pretty," Zethes mumbled. "I mean, she's right.
~ Rick Riordan
Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don't rhyme
~ Rick Riordan
If anybody felt worse than I did, it was Amos. I had just enough magic to turn myself into a falcon and him into a hamster (hey, I was rushed!)
~ Rick Riordan
As they made their way back to shore, Edward felt the sun on his face and the wind blowing through the little bit of fur left on his ears, and something filled his chest, a wonderful feeling. He was glad to be alive.
~ Kate DiCamillo
In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.
~ Kate Williams
You might say she feels in italics and thinks in capital letters!
~ Katharine Weber
The Paradox: how do you lose something you never had? The answer: There was another way to have. A transparent stretch of space between you. To love from a distance, through that space, more deeply, more colourfully, so it can be seen from faraway like a flag. Eventually the spave itself fills you. The air entering your body and replacing your blood, running through you. The halfßpleasant feeling of not being here.
~ Katie Roiphe
I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life... Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person (nor are they incompatible).
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
It was a fine feeling indeed to be standing up there like that, with the sound of summer all around one and a light breeze on one's face. And I believe it was then, looking on that view, that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me. For it was then that I felt the first healthy flush of anticipation for the many interesting experiences I know these days ahead hold in store for me.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse
~ Kelley Armstrong