1,266 Quotes About Emotion

Then again, a president wasn’t a lawyer or an accountant or a pilot, hired to carry out some narrow, specialized task. Mobilizing public opinion, shaping working coalitions - that was the job. Whether I liked it or not, people were moved by emotion, not facts. To elicit the best rather than the worst of those emotions, to buttress those better angels of our nature with reason and sound policy, to perform while still speaking the truth - that was the bar I needed to clear.

Emotion is not opposed to reason; our emotions assign value to experiences and thus are the foundation of reason.

Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words.

Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".

Fantasies always sound good, but they're no help when reality comes and shoves you to the ground. When it trips up your tongue and traps the right words in your head. When it leaves you to eat lunch by yourself.

The wind was never angry, the rain was never sad.

Another city miles apart, New York; an apple so big that it had engulfed many lost souls like me ~Tale of Two Cities, Days and Nights Anthology

A City where I grew up, I learnt to walk for the first time. A city whose landscape is sprawled with huge bungalows. Bungalows spread in acres, connected by adjacent roofs & pillars, or having a common verandah. Everyone connected literally and figuratively in one another’s life; No one willing to mind their own business ~ ~ A Tale of Two Cities, Days and Nights Anthology