#feelings

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#conclude #democracy #feelings #forced #idealistic

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#artist #ask #feelings #i #interpret

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#contradictory #ecstasy #feelings #felt #heart

I can't hide my feelings. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#hide #i

Was our life together that unbearable? ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#key-quote #lionel-shriver #relationships #life

Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that. ↗

— Hal David

#different #feelings #interesting #life #may

God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings. ↗

— Selma Blair

#god #hurt #i #knows #never

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story. I will not do something shocking for the sake of being nasty. If it's not hurting anyone's feelings, I'm in on the joke. ↗

— Selma Blair

#anyone #anything #being #belief #feelings

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#different #dwellers #each #feelings #habits

The combination of the Main brain with its central nervous system, and the ancient Animal Brain with its somatic, enteric nervous system in the inner body—in the gut—and the constant dialog between them provides a self-correcting feedback system, which regulates the behavioral qualities of the organism when consciously cultivated—preferably in early youth. ↗

— Martha Char Love

#gut-brain #gut-feelings #psychology #intelligence