Felt Quotes - page 3

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept. (Neil Gaiman)
My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me. View quote
Kim Novak
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. View quote
Thom Gunn
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. View quote
Alice Walker
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently? View quote
Amy Tan
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all. View quote
Anne Tyler
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality. View quote
Karen Armstrong
I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before. View quote
James Irwin
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. (Kenneth Grahame)
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply. View quote
John Buchan
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
There's a line in the picture where he snarls, "Nobody tells me what to do." That's exactly how I've felt all my life. View quote
Marlon Brando
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive. View quote
Lana Del Rey
We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. View quote
Douglas Adams
The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky. View quote
William Wordsworth
Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound. View quote
William Wordsworth
On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away. View quote
William Wordsworth
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep The river glideth at his own sweet will Dear God the very houses seem asleep And all that mighty heart is lying still. (William Wordsworth)
I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. View quote
Herman Wouk
It's good to be 18. For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult. View quote
Ezra Miller
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America. View quote
Eric Hoffer
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. View quote
Leo Tolstoy