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  • I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. -- James A. Michener
  • The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. -- Chauncey Wright
  • Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction. -- Owen D. Young
  • I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about. -- Tisha Campbell-Martin
  • Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for. -- Zig Ziglar
  • Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people. -- Robert Altman
  • Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics. -- Brad Stone
  • So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions. -- Rick Moody
  • Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions. -- Duane Michals
  • When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic. -- Thora Birch
  • If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships. -- Sarah Lacy
  • I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions. -- Tess Gerritsen
  • The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. -- Laurence Olivier
  • empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions. -- Frances Gray Patton
  • Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions. -- Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
  • Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. -- Peter Høeg
  • The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude. -- Hans Selye
  • Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions. -- Jim Rohn
  • Empathy is the most radical of human emotions. -- Gloria Steinem
  • Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions. -- Hans Selye
  • Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love. -- Paulo Coelho
  • I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions. -- B. B. King
  • I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing. -- Albert Brooks
  • Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions. -- Pattiann Rogers
  • Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred. -- Carl Sagan
  • The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value. -- M.F. Moonzajer
  • Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul. -- Howard Pyle
  • The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions. -- Napoleon Hill
  • A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide. -- Alain de Botton
  • Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life. -- Virginia Woolf
  • But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love. -- Stephen King
  • But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. -- Hannibal
  • Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them? -- Magda Gerber
  • Use your human intelligence in the best way you can; transform your emotions in a positive way. -- Dalai Lama
  • Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being -- Margaret Floy Washburn
  • The fragility of human emotions are not to be trusted but to validate the necessity of Grace. -- John Pauul Warren
  • No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human. -- Harriet Lerner
  • Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose. -- Manis Friedman
  • I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions. -- Jane Goodall
  • Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact. -- Napoleon Hill
  • It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances. -- Daya Kudari
  • I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence. -- Volker Bertelmann
  • Never underestimate somebody's silence. Lot more is conveyed through it. A person who respects human emotions will understand this better. -- Stephen Manoharan
  • All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being. -- Anthony Evans
  • Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human. -- Miguel
  • My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions. I lock away the things that do not serve me. -- Tahereh Mafi
  • Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human.. -- Esther Dalseno
  • Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. -- Isaac Asimov
  • Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions. -- Yoko Ogawa
  • Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway. -- Douglas Conant
  • I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it. -- Sasha Grey
  • Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions. -- Kenzo Tange
  • Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper. -- Toru Takemitsu
  • Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. -- Michael Pollan
  • Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since. -- Dagobert D. Runes
  • Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.The Nature of Emotions (2001) -- Robert Plutchik
  • When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions. -- Henry Tamburin
  • Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • I think there is little harm in venting here and there about things, as we are all human, and it is good to express emotions. -- Michelle Gielan
  • I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one. -- Daphne Guinness
  • Doubt means you're human - congratulations! It's natural to have these feelings, and if anything makes you humble, just don't be ruled by those emotions. -- Kathryn Budig
  • The problems we have with our current technology often reveal our own human foibles, and it's these new emotions of cyberspace which reveal our struggles. -- Alexander Weinstein
  • God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. -- Bill Gates
  • It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole. -- Alfred Korzybski
  • All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. -- H. P. Lovecraft
  • I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets. -- Kinky Friedman
  • To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us. -- Frans de Waal
  • I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity. -- Gabrielle Zevin
  • No matter whether you are black or white, man or woman, gay or straight, Christian, Muslim, or Jew, we all share the same emotions, the same human condition. -- James Blunt
  • The thought content of ghazals must be meaningful, related to life, it's emotions of joy and sorrow. It must have the human touch, it should not be phoney. -- Jagjit Singh
  • Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious. -- Irving Kristol
  • It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings. -- Tony Robbins
  • What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for what they are not. -- Anne Rice
  • I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. -- Alex Grey
  • I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. -- Mark Rothko
  • Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there's an explosion-that's Plot. -- Leigh Brackett
  • I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions. -- Mark Rothko
  • In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique. -- Sheila Kitzinger
  • What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in serious music. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
  • We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions and traits) is, however, outdated. Rather we know that we are like animals. -- Michael Fox
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