Eve Ensler Quotes

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

Eve Ensler

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Feelings
  • Ability
  • Distance

• And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Feelings

• The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Feelings

• 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.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Present
  • Danger

• Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Feeling
  • Water
  • Spiritual

• I was raised with a ton of brothers and sisters where, obviously, the music running in and out of the house was very eclectic. So, I had a lot under my belt by the time I grew up. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in, the space that I'm in and what I'm feeling at that moment. But definitely!

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I just kinda do what I feel. I never knew what lane I would fill, [or that] I would fill a lane at all. I didn't even really contemplate that far down the road. I just started having fun, and a lot of that came from me seeing Wayne dare to be different, and I started feeling like I can be a multifaceted rapper. I don't have to be a one-dimensional female rapper. Once I put that in perspective, it was like everything just got easier for me, because I no longer wanted to fit in anybody's box... I just wanted to be Nicki.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Feeling

• It's been the toughest week of my life, not touching you. Not talking to you. Waiting to see what you were going to do." He kissed her again, a warm, damp touch of lips, exquisitely controlled. "But it doesn't matter whether you stay or go. I'll still need you. So if you want to go off to Boston, Ill wait. Right here, whenever you need me.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Life
  • Control
  • Waiting

• We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Giving
  • Feeling
  • Proud

• You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Brain

• You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings.

  

  L. S. Lowry
  • Brain
  • Feelings
  • Needs

• I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Career

• The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Danger

• Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • World
  • Hand
  • Feelings

• Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. See much and get rid of what is dangerous and be careful in acting on the rest and your causes for regret will be few. Speaking without fault, acting without causing regret: 'upgrading' consists in this.

  

  Confucius
  • Mistake
  • Fault
  • Remove

• When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.

  

  Feist
  • Song
  • Know
  • Ending

• Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play in the human and divine drama - some persons just a few lines, others whole pages. To refuse to play one's role at all is not the answer. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

  

  William Kurelek
  • Play
  • Drama
  • Human

• Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Feelings
  • Danger
  • DIssociates