Felt Quotes - Page 19

• There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Agony, Would Be, Moments

  Douglas Kennedy (2009). “Leaving the World”, p.355, Random House

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• Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. We knew from that moment that things can go terribly wrong in our world-not because life is unfair, or moral progress impossible, but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions of our ignorant ancestors.

  Sam Harris

  Years, Our World, Ignorant

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• I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Christ, Salvation

  1738 Journal entry, 24 May.

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• If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

  John Piper

  Falling In Love, Greatness, Light

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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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• All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse's pudgy face.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Running, Hands, Supernatural Forces

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.140, Penguin

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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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• Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.

  Henry Miller

  Home, May, Spirit

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.205, New Directions Publishing

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• I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

  Peter Wright

  Life, Years, Three

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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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• I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.

  Leverett Saltonstall

  Men, Religion, Affair

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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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• In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

  Richard Powers

  Block, Writing, Years

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• I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Association, Way, Pleasure

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• I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

  Kenny Cunningham

  Football, Thinking, Stage

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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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• British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,.

  David Frost

  Pace, Economic, British

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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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• I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.

  Ernst Haas

  Believe, Risk, Easier

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