Mixed Emotions Quotes

• You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Optimistic, Next

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• An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Optimistic, Expectations

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• Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Birthday, Age, Emotion

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• One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Reading, Emotion

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wise, Wisdom, Emotional

  "Distilled Wisdom". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145, 1964.

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• Treacherous people do not last only memories of their treason last.So will it last with emotions mixed, of love and hate for treacherous ones.

  Amit Abraham

  Memories, Hate, People

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• Write about the emotions you fear the most.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Motivational, Fear, Writing

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• When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.

  Salli Richardson

  Emotion, Loved Ones, Thirst

  "Salli Richardson-Whitfield: The “I Will Follow” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. August 18, 2001.

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• There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison; and other people just hate him regular.

  Buddy Hackett

  Hate, People, Poison

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

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• I feel like somebody who just got out of prison after 40 years for something she didn't do, like I got pardoned by the governor. When dear friends deal with me with mixed emotions, it is a little like being told, 'Well, Jenny, we're glad you got sprung, really, but quite honestly we did kind of like you better when you were in jail.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Years, Jail, Littles

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• This is following through on the market correction and a lot of mixed emotions, ... We had players who were with us in '03 who helped us win a championship. It's a business, but we've had a lot of history with a lot of these guys. The recognition of what they've done is not going to be lost, but the reality of the situation is the reality of the situation.

  Larry Beinfest

  Winning, Player, Reality

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• Obviously we're celebrating a 36-year legacy on ABC and the end of an era, but we're also celebrating the start of a new era with this great property on ESPN. It's a bit of mixed emotions.

  George Bodenheimer

  Years, Legacy, Eras

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• Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I.

  Gerald R. Ford

  War, Fighting, Pride

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• Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I'm hearing that I like so much?" And it's nearly always a sort of mixed emotion, which is why I like it. It's something that I have mixed feelings about in the sense that it's both, say, placid and dangerous, or bitter and sweet, or dark and bright.

  Brian Eno

  Sweet, Struggle, Dark

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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