Feels Quotes - page 3

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave. (Douglas Coupland)
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. View quote
George Orwell
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation. View quote
Václav Havel
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. View quote
Julia Cameron
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. View quote
Jean-François Revel
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. View quote
William Wordsworth
A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death. View quote
William Wordsworth
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. View quote
Victor Hugo
The World is so empty if one thinks only of the mountains, rivers, and cities but to know someone who thinks and feels with us,and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. View quote
Jim Bishop
They look quite promising in the shop, and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels sorry for them. View quote
Joyce Grenfell
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more. View quote
Horatio Nelson
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. View quote
Novak Djokovic
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self. View quote
Wilhelm Dilthey
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great. View quote
Graham Brown
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with. (Alice Hoffman)
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. View quote
Lionel Shriver
When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one. View quote
Jennifer Coolidge
Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good. View quote
Adam Rich