Carol Matas Quotes

I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up." —Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

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• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Long
  • History
  • Feeling

• If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • Feels
  • For Her

• I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • America
  • Sick

• In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Money
  • Why
  • Imagination

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Sincerity

• I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Single
  • Space
  • Feelings

• When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Political
  • Sick
  • Retirement

• I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • America
  • House

• I grew up in a small town where we played around on motorcycles and things, but it really started when I got old enough. I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Small

• They could see the rapids on their right. The swaying of the bus made her sick and weak, and her willpower was failing with her strength. She was afraid of falling into a torpor in which everything would become immaterial to her, and she tensed in an effort to seem gay and even attentive to Emmanuel.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • She
  • Effort
  • Gay

• Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Heart
  • Forever
  • Sun

• Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.

  

  James Carville
  • People
  • Team
  • Sports

• I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'

  

  Mark Billingham
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Sick

• Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Society
  • Relationship
  • Sick

• I've had many friends over the years who have been in same-sex relationships, and the family denies hospital visitations when one is sick. Or when the estate is settled and people who have built a life together has everything taken away from them either by the families or the taxman.

  

  David Furnish
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!

  

  Burt Rutan
  • People
  • Space
  • Taken

• Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow.

  

  Confucius
  • Mistake
  • Pay
  • Rue

• When I get the chance to make my favorite breakfast on the weekend, I often choose to make pancakes.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Breakfast
  • Weekend

• I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Good
  • Chance
  • Cancer

• Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Money
  • Wealth
  • Use

• War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Game
  • Reputation
  • Troops

• I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up." —Ruth Mendenberg

  

  Carol Matas
  • Feelings
  • Feels
  • Sick