Edward Thomson Quotes

There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

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• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

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• I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  

  Harper Lee
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• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• I hate to lose. Sometimes, I let my emotions get out of control.

  

  Ed Belfour
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• I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Me
  • Anxiety
  • Emotions

• I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Teacher
  • Emotions
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• I would say I stay pretty calm. Don't let the game get too fast on me. I try to keep my emotions in check, I guess, so I don't show that anything fazes me out there. And I try to take it one pitch at a time.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Game
  • Pretty

• There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • For Her

• May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Life
  • Sense

• Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Law
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• There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Time
  • Emotions
  • Resist

• Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time and energy you've put in. Unleash your emotions with a cheer, or even a signature roar, after a tough workout.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Energy

• A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Time
  • World
  • Morning

• And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.

  

  Aristotle
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Responsible

• The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Church
  • Emotions
  • Minority

• Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Opinion
  • Conscience
  • God Men

• It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Conscience

• What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.

  

  Ali Sina
  • Conscience
  • Beasts
  • Humanness

• Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Sensations

• Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Heaven

• I fear not," Hamilcar said gravely, shaking his head. "It seems to be the fate of all nations, that as they grow in wealth so they lose their manly virtues. With wealth comes corruption, indolence, a reluctance to make sacrifices, and a weakening of the feeling of patriotism.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Head
  • Shaking
  • Hamicar

• There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

  

  Edward Thomson
  • Emotions
  • Conscience
  • Sensations