Felt Quotes - Page 18

• The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.

  Adam Smith

  Fall, Passion, Empathy

  Adam Smith, James R. Otteson (2004). “Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.22, Imprint Academic

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• The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

  John Piper

  Reality, Want, Morality

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• I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.

  Hudson Taylor

  Father, Shy, Littles

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• He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

  Jack Campbell

  Patience, Dark, Light

  Jack Campbell (2009). “The Lost Fleet: Relentless”, p.144, Penguin

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• The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

  Edward Young

  Heart, Home, House

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.236

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• Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

  Anthony Powell

  Portraits, Process, Sat

  Anthony Powell (2005). “Some Poets, Artists & 'A Reference for Mellors'”, p.251, Timewell Press

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• I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

  Robert Smith

  Song, Writing, Ifs

  The Hit magazine, 1985.

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• You have to follow where the poem leads. And it will surprise you. It will say things you didn't expect to say. And you look at the poem and you realize, 'That is truly what I felt.' That is truly what I saw.

  Philip Levine

  Saws, Looks, Surprise

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• After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

  Evan Williams

  School, College, Years

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• I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

  Kenny Cunningham

  Dream, Would Be, Scene

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• I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Writing, Years, Promise

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

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• The highest thing people can say about an artist is, 'You know, I felt he or she was singing right to me.' If you've got the goods, and you're honest, that's where the thrill comes in, because of the urgency of the people really feeling what they feel. It's right there.

  Steve Ross

  Artist, People, Feelings

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• Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

  John Lubbock

  Cheerful, World, Brightness

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• I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.

  John Robinson

  Leaving, Important, Trying

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• As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

  George Aiken

  Wild Places, Needs, Wilderness

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• First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

  Frank McCourt

  Book, Responsibility, Creating

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• 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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• I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour.

  Alan Ball

  Pride, Clubs, Captains

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• To convey in the print the feeling you experienced when you exposed your film – to walk out of the darkroom and say: ‘This is it, the equivalent of what I saw and felt!’. That’s what it’s all about.

  John Sexton

  Feelings, Saws, Film

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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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• I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

  John Sexton

  Beautiful, Artist, Photographer

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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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• I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the one-lungers and the has-beens and the might've beens and the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home.

  Joseph Mitchell

  New York, Home, Cities

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