Quotes about emotional

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder

Leaders act with visions they don't react with emotions. Maturity is when you don't allow your bad feelings to direct your good dealings.

Katy Perry -

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

Edward Hirsch -

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

Seamus Heaney -

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.

Juan Felipe Herrera -

San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from.

Marilyn Ferguson -

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Conor McGregor -

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Lynn Good -

If you feel like there is going to be an emotional reaction that won't be helpful to resolve the situation, anger or other things, disarm the situation in some way, and you can use different techniques to do that.

Kabir Bedi -

Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.

Bono -

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Drake -

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride.

Israelmore Ayivor -

You may not be able to do anything about how you feel but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not....

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet because poetry is beyond hooks and holes.

Evinda Lepins - Back to Single

Don’t allow your feelings to drive the car you’re bound to get in an accident!(HS/el)

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The effects of overworkingYou forget which day it is.You think fast than what you write.

Taimoor Madni -

I hate everyone because everyone's same as others and everyone hates me because I'm unique. They hate me because I have a heart which gets hurt every time but at the end of the day it gets heal in a hope that next day wont be same as this one. So don't worry guys you can still use me.. :)

Hanna Rosin -

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

Sun Yat-sen -

Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.

Erin Gruwell -

Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.

Sylvester Stallone -

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

Trevor Dunn -

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

Yvonne Strahovski -

I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

Virginia Postrel -

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.

David L. Wolper -

My initial goal for the 1984 opening ceremonies was a show that would be majestic, inspirational, and emotional - a 20 goosebump experience.

Travis Bradberry -

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Ellen Ochoa -

I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.

Peter Zumthor -

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

Steve Vai -

Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.

David Byrne -

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Michael Grant - Plague

Hey, Sam,” Drake shouted. “I thought you’d like to know this isn’t my whole army.”Sam didn’t doubt it.“Your girl Brianna tried to stop us.” Drake waved a bowie knife in the air. “I took this from her. I whipped her, Sam.” He snapped his whip hand. The crack was like a pistol shot. “I broke her legs so she couldn’t run. Then . . .”Dekka was halfway over the side, ready to swim ashore. Jack grabbed her and held her.“Let me go!” Dekka yelled.“Hold her,” Sam ordered Jack. “Don’t be stupid, Dekka. He

Christopher Hitchens -

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

Michael Grant - Light

Lunch had been at a McDonald’s in Santa Barbara. It had been so clean. It had smelled like food. It had sounded happy and alive. In the bathroom, the toilet flushed. Water ran in the sink.He had passed a trash can on the way back to his table and stopped just to look at it. It was full of food. Leftover burgers, the last few fries, smears of ketchup on cardboard. He’d had to hold back tears when he saw it.“Candy bar?” Vicky asked, and held a Snickers out to him.At that moment they slowed to turn

Rand Olson - Children of Promise: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Kids

Your children will stop paying attention to you when they have reached your age of emotional maturity. If your child is starting to tune you out, you need to go through a growth spurt of emotional and spiritual maturity. You can never chase a child to a higher awareness; you can only lead them.

Kathy Steele -

when a child is ridiculed, shamed, hurt or ignored when she experiences and expresses a legitimate dependency need, she will later be inclined to attach those same affective tones to her dependency. Thus, she will experience her own (and perhaps others’) dependency as ridiculous, shameful, painful, or denied. - Dependency in the Treatment of complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders 2001Authors: Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis

Bethany Brookbank - Write like no one is reading

In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.

Lik Hock Yap Ivan -

You can experience the same thing over and over again but how you feel about it will never be the same as the first.

Erik Pevernagie -

It may be expedient to take stock of all the affecting pieces that might shatter in the wake of an emotional earthquake, once red flags come up in a committed relationship and an overarching scene has to be fashioned for a recast life experience. ("Waiting for the pieces to fall into place")

Chicha Bans -

I'm just like the tree... strong-looking but slowly dying.

E.E. Knight - Dragon Avenger

Father, it’s Wistala. Wistala.”Father grimaced. “You’re a star, Wistala — I saw you twinkling beneath dear Irelia last night. You, Auron, and Jizara all in a row. I’ll be up there soon. Wait.

Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express

I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.

Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo

You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibacy: God sent you to me both to console the man who could not be a father and the prisoner who could not be free

Maite -

When you're emotionally weak, but psychically smiling. When you want to be loved but can't be loved. When you try to feel special, but realize you're just one out of many. When you cry about every little obstacle and disappointment. But hey I'm fine

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel, full of mirth and despair. Inherent inconsistences mark me as part of nature, which is neither cruel nor fair, or reliable or predictable.

Jojo Moyes - Me Before You

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

R.A. Salvatore -

I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love.

Michael Grant - Hunger

Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth.She felt no pain.She saw no light.She heard, but barely.Her heart was still and silent.Yet she did not die.

Veronica Roth - Insurgent

I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.

Rick Riordan - The Mark of Athena

Her secret fear? Maybe she didn't tried hard enough.

Alex Flinn - Breaking Point

The word felt good, liberating. So, I repeat it. "Fuck." Then, again. And again. Because it made me someone else, someone normal and happy, someone who used words like that, like St. John. I repeated it, over and over until she walked away, wounded. Then, I was glad. And still, I kept repeating it, because that was the only thing that kept me from crying.

Courtney Summers - This is Not a Test

I’m sorry,” he tells me.I sit down on the bed. He returns to the view of the street below. I follow his gaze and I see the infected walking slowly back and forth.“It’s okay,” I say.“Okay,” he says. He nods. “Good.”He puts the gun under his chin and pulls the trigger.

Scott Hastie -

Mislaid flame of tender emotionsRekindled.Together we live to the point of tears,I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Habib Sadeghi - Within

How you react to the issue, IS the issue.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

May you find comfort by reading and mediation on God’s word.

Maureen Brady -

In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, to receive attention. No wonder we mistook this attention for love. We thought love came in finite quantities—it had to be competed for among siblings, or it had to be paid for with exacting dues.

Sarah Ockler - Twenty Boy Summer

Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.

Sharon Sant - Runners

It was a room full of ghosts, arranged in readiness for days that would never happen.

Cheryl Strayed - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

I cried and I cried and I cried. I wasn't crying because I was happy. I wasn't crying because I was sad. I wasn't crying because of my mother or my father or Paul. I was crying because I was full...I didn't feel like a big fate idiot anymore. And I didn't feel like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen. I felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world too.

Kathyrn Stockett -

Miss Taylor says kids that are colored can't go to my school cause they're not smart enough." I come round the counter then. Lift her chin up and smooth back her funny-looking hair. "You think I'm dumb?" "No," she whispers hard, like she means it so much. She look sorry she said it. "What that tell you about Miss Taylor, then?" She blink, like she listening good. "Means Miss Taylor ain't right all the time," I say. She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then

Josh Stern - And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?

Sure I eat my feelings, but I save the emotional roller coaster for dessert

Geoff Johns - Vol. 1: A Kid's Game

I will never fully understand why things happen the way they do on this planet. Too many people hold their tongue here. Too many people hide their true feelings. And at the end of the day, that does nothing but hurt someone. The men and women of Tamaran were always taught to live by their emotions, to trust that first reaction, as it is the most pure. Cyborg argues that you need time to make the proper decision. I argue that time blurs the true intent. To Earth standards, I may appear brash and

Nina Jean Slack - Forever Found

I had never been in love with anyone before in my life, but I knew the feeling when it came bursting into my soul, like a million butterflies swirling around inside of me, like a tidal wave crashing into the shore that was my heart, flooding it completely and wiping out everything in it's path...” - Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)

Crystal Woods - Write like no one is reading 2

My existence began the day you were created and was realized the day we met.

Erik Pevernagie -

If thinking and reason crack under pressure of emotional convulsions or when commissioned facts are resulting from fibs and fake constructions, truth may be in great peril. ( ”Blame storming”)

Ben Howard -

I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry.

Brenda Lochinger -

Being a parent is one of the best, stressful, guilty, rewarding, sad, happy, frustrating, cherished, disgusting, fun, ridiculous, time consuming, joyful, maddening, worrisome, hectic, magical, nostalgic, second guessing, warm, cuddly, thing one can spend the rest of their life doing. I wouldn't have it any other way!

Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin

This is a dynamic particular to encounters with male drivers, who seem to grow all the more indignant the more completely they are in the wrong. I think the emotional reasoning, if you can call it that, is transitive: You make me feel bad; feeling mad makes me mad; ergo, you make me mad.

Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin

This is a dynamic particular to encounters with male drivers, who seem to grow all the more indignant the more completely they are in the wrong. I think the emotional reasoning, if you can call it that, is transitive: You make me feel bad; feeling bad makes me mad; ergo, you make me mad.

M.F. Moonzajer -

My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.

Timothy Norr -

Aggression is such a powerful feeling, its almost arousing when your whole body goes tense, hardens up, and you suppress every single emotion your heart can produce, and the shaking, the sweat that pour off your face, the heavy breathing, its almost like getting a rush of adrenaline over and over again

Lexxie Couper - Lead Me On

You're everything I hate about the rock world and yet everything I love...

Alex Rosa - Tryst

The way he looks at me makes me ache, but it isn’t fair. He hurt me first. He caused this ache from the start. This inside out, churning pain that feels mental and physical now.I fiddle with my hands, peering up at him again, and all I can think is, God, I wish he’d stop staring at me like that.

Nina Jean Slack - Forever Found

One look into your beautiful eyes, and my self-loathing soul felt envy. I had become vulnerable that instant...helpless, wanting, hating, resenting, loathing...” -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)

Sherilee Gray - Revved

Spread, Foxy. Show me that sweet spot.

Sherilee Gray - Revved

You ready for this? You ready for what I’m gonna do to you?

Sherilee Gray - Revved

Christ, you have a body made for sin.

Sherilee Gray - Revved

You been taking care of yourself a long time, Foxy. You must be fucking hungry for it. I bet you’re drenched right now.

Sherilee Gray - Revved

Foxy, you made me blow a load in my jeans.

Holly A. Smith - Fire of the Five Hearts: A Memoir of Treating Incest

I am inundated with feeling. I feel like a pinball machine on tilt. All the buzzers are ringing, lights are flashing, and I am about to fry my circuits. Nothing is coming in,and nothing is going out. I feel electrified. The wires ignited, sparked, and fizzled. I want it all to slow down. I go right to the water to douse my flame. I immerse myself in the hot water. I want to wash the smells off my body. I can smell Isabella's hair, her breath, and her child vaginal scent. My hair smells of smoke,

Bethany Brookbank - Write like no one is reading

Certain things are extremely difficult to understand, such as the concept of unconditional love, perhaps it is due to mislead thoughts about God’s love for us. Assuming that we can say or do certain things and suddenly lose this love and approval. But I when I picture God I picture him standing with his arms out saying, "Beth stop punishing yourself." And he says it like my dad used to say, with such great authority and assurance in his voice that I can't help but smile, and know it's gonna be o

Amit Kalantri -

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Crystal Woods - Write like no one is reading 2

The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.

Jeff Lindsay - Dearly Devoted Dexter

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

Dhruv Agrawal -

Some memories are meant for not to be said, either they are too Scary to tell, or we love them that much, that we can’t explain those in oral words

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

Amit Kalantri - Wealth of Words

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre

A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite distance-it died. The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept.

Jamie McGuire - Beautiful Disaster

He continued to stare out the window. "I meant what I said before. You need to walk away, Pidge. God knows I can't walk away from you.

Rachel Thompson - Broken Pieces

She wondered If I had woken up, would I have smelled his sadness, his desperation, and his detachment? His death, her breath. He told her once, she remembers, these two words have no other rhyme but each other. If she could go back, she thinks -- She would open her eyes, instead of her heart.

Dan McCurrigan - My Honor Flight

I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.

Toba Beta - Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also...but of course if you were able to stand soberly after the first slap.

Amit Kalantri -

Goals doesn't leave you like men, goals wait, they wait for their achievers.

Amit Kalantri -

His emotions are not for men, they are for his vision.

Mike Bond - The Last Savanna

I have spent hours and hours watching elephants, and to come to understand what emotional creatures they are...it's not just a species facing extinction, it's massive individual suffering.

V.C. Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

We're going to change. We're going to throw out what's worse in usand keep what's best. But come hell or high water, we three will sticktogether, all for one, one for all. We're going to grow, Cathy,physically, mentally, and emotionally. Not only that, we're going toreach the goals we've set for ourselves. I'll be the best damneddoctor the world's ever known and you will make Pavlova seem like anawkward country girl.

Neal Shusterman - Dread Locks

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

Amit Kalantri -

Emotional pain, physical damage, financial weakness are the reasons to stop for a while and not forever.

Amit Kalantri -

Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.

Stephanie Laurens - The Taming of Ryder Cavanaugh

I have a request to make,my lord."He held her gaze; she could see him trying to decide what she might ask, but eventually he surrendered."And that is?""Take me to your bed.