emotion

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything.

Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope.

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

Another tear appeared and then another, trailing silently down her cheeks. This was so much harder than she__ thought it would be. She was usually so articulate, yet at the moment her brain seemed to have turned to mush.He turned his head to kiss the tears from her cheek, and it was as though his act of tenderness finally unleashed the truth that was struggling to emerge.

Tunney has all the makings of a hero _ he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-looking _ but, like Lou Gehrig, he lacked the chemistry that stirred affection.

He forced himself into good spirits.

A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, remains opaque, presents a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift. If some misfortune comes to him, it is only in one small section of the complete idea we have of him that we are capable of feeling any emotion; indeed it is only in one small section of the complete idea he has of himself that he is capable of feeling any emotion either.

Rosy lifted her arm, tried to say something, then pointed at the cafe, held her head, covered her mouth and__umiliation of humiliations__he began to cry. Right there in the street. ____ so confused,_ she said but it came out as a great honking wail.__ome here, you silly girl,_ Phyllis said.The woman put her arms around Rosy, patted her back, and for the first time in forever, Rosy allowed herself to just cry.A young mother with twins in a pram passed them. The children__ eyes tracked Rosy for a second before their faces crumpled and they started to cry too.____ sorry,_ Rosy said, and flapped her arms. ____ sorry.

The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.

The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness.

I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish__ wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and__ppraised it__nd taxed it__nd licensed it__nd staled it!

In intertwining sentimentality, healing, narcissism, and authority, modern evangelicals give authority to those emotions themselves...The sentimental becomes evidence and authority in a world in which most evangelicals have given up intellectual pursuits and concerns over doctrine. Essentially, sentimentality represents an abandonment of theology and critical introspection in popular evangelicalism. Instead of crafting intellectual responses to the challenges to evangelicalism, popular evangelicals appeal to the power of feeling as an authority to counteract science and criticism of the Bible. They offer their audiences the opportunity to FEEL that evangelicalism is right rather than asking them to accept the veracity of doctrinal positions of evangelicalism.

No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.

Come, sir, come,I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.Look, here I have you, thus I let you go,And give you to the gods.

Safety was one thing, but what he really wanted was to be electrified, to be wounded, to be cast into the wilderness, to be released, to be exalted, and most especially to be surrounded by the drowning noise and ebullience and casual presence of friends calling out his name, demanding his presence.

So long as this struggle known as life goes on, there will always be the music to fit the mood and make it better.

Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the mind of the reader.