“ Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you’ll eventually need to talk about things… Tom Burns
“ I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope. Vicki Covington
“ Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope. George Friedman
“ While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not succumb to personal… George Friedman
“ A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, remains opaque, presents a dead weight which our sensibilities have… Marcel Proust
“ Advertisers as well as political leaders long ago found that it is easier to appeal to the people through the heart than through the mind. Programs built with an emotional people are sure to draw the… Judith C. Waller
“ What happened to you? When did you stop believing in yourself? In your gift? In what you deserve? Jennifer Probst
“ In intertwining sentimentality, healing, narcissism, and authority, modern evangelicals give authority to those emotions themselves...The sentimental becomes evidence and authority in a world in which… Todd M. Brenneman
“ Notice that “love thy neighbor” - a wildly popular piece of wisdom found in the Bible - is a command. Jesus is commanding us to love. Now, Jesus understood that emotions and feelings cannot be command… Cole Ryan
“ I felt a new wave of irritation, squelched it as I kicked into scientist mode. First rule: block mind-set. Don’t suspect, don’t fear, don’t hope for any outcome. Observe, weigh, measure, and record.Se… Kathy Reichs
“ The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be ex… John Taliaferro
“ No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight. Damon Galgut
“ One’s first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be its own unfathomable emotion. It would not be this precious, first, spring love.… Thomm Quackenbush
“ Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On t… Taylor Swift
“ Emotions rage inside me, something like a world war twisting inside my stomach and poking holes in my lungs. I can't pick apart reality from fantasy - does that mean insanity isn't far from my reach? K. Weikel
“ We have no heart at seventeen. We think we do; we think we have been cursed with a holy, bloated thing that twitches at the name we adore, but it is not a heart because though it will forfeit anything… Andrew Sean Greer
“ You tug and strain like a young horse when it's first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings. Sigrid Undset
“ I can't promise to becalm, dignified,and indifferent, like a rock by the sea...If my heart's going to break, let it break from anger,grief,or Nazim Hikmet
“ Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind. Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
