Eudora Welty Quotes
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
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I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
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Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did Mike Brown, and his contract had ended after five years, and, ultimately, both sides decided they wanted to do other things. No hard feelings at all there.
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I have no human feelings.
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When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.
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Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.
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And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.
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England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.
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More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.
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It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.
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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings.
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Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.
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Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.
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Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.
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Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.
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I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.
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Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
