Quotes of Mood - somelinesforyou

“ The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. ”

- Alice Meynell

“ I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. ”

- Edward Albee

“ I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am. ”

- Jane Austen

“ There's the humour of it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus. ”

- James Gibbons

“ The seal went into the restaurant and was asked by the waiter if he would like a Canadian Club on the rocks. He replied no thank you. ”

- Unknown

“ The British tourist was asked what he thought of the Grand Canyon.. and wrote back 'gorge-ous'. ”

- Unknown

“ The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood. ”

- Eddie Murphy

“ Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business. ”

- Barbara Ehrenreich

“ Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods — moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former — but no opinion. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. ”

- Diane Ackerman

“ Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat. ”

- Arthur Winter

“ Faith…is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh… to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies. ”

- Charles Horton Cooley

“ Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods. ”

- Esther M. Clark

“ I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer. ”

- Malcolm Boyd

“ I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing. ”

- Ingemar Stenmark

“ I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again — as I always am when I write. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood — no more — to man, and love to a woman is life or death. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the "correspondence" through which we may know our boundless selves. ”

- Kathleen Raine

“ Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle. ”

- Cher

“ People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life. ”

- Ilka Chase

“ That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being in the mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. ”

- Ernest Hemingway
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