Dismissing Feelings And Emotions Quotes & Sayings

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow. — Solomon Northup

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child. — Neal Barnard

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness! — Roald Dahl

In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like "How to live?" - from a broad mixture of sources, including literature and philosophy, history and anthropology. These sources can guide our reflections on our own experiences, as we explore and reconsider. Mann contributed to such explorations in a distinctive way, and I hope my book brings that out. — Philip Kitcher

Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own. — Maya Angelou

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy. — John Lewis Lund

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more. — Diana Vreeland

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion. — James Blunt

I loved you when you wanted to leave,
and I loved you when you left. — Hayley Stumbo

Sometimes the hardest peace to find is the peace in saying good-bye and leaving the work of justice and reconciliation to Jesus. — Kara Tippetts

Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority ... for his admirers. — Knut Hamsun

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him. — Terry Pratchett

Even now that I only have one eye, maybe I see more things than before. My life was completely against the clock, a fight against the stopwatch. — Maria De Villota

Socrates : Then would he not be conceding that his own opinion is false, if he grants that the opinion of those who think he is in error is true?
Theodorus : Necessarily.
Socrates : But the others do not concede that they are in error, do they?
Theodorus : No, they do not.
Socrates : And he, in turn, according to his writings, grants that this opinion also is true.
Theodorus : Evidently.
Socrates : Then all men, beginning with Protagoras, will dispute - or rather, he will grant, after he once concedes that the opinion of the man who holds the opposite view is true - even Protagoras himself, I say, will concede that neither a dog nor any casual man is a measure of anything whatsoever that he has not learned. Is not that the case?
Theodorus : Yes.
Socrates : Then since the "truth" of Protagoras is disputed by all, it would be true to nobody, neither to anyone else nor to him.
[171b-c] — Plato