“Dr. McCoy: Mr. Spock, you're the most cold-blooded man I've ever known. Mr. Spock: Why, thank you, Doctor.”— Gene L. Coon, Carey Wilber, Leonard McCoy, DeForest Kelley, imdb.com
“Dr. McCoy: Mr. Spock, remind me to tell you that I'm sick and tired of your logic. Spock: That is a most illogical attitude.”— Oliver Crawford, Shimon Wincelberg, Leonard McCoy, DeForest Kelley, imdb.com
“Mr. Spock: Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately. Dr. McCoy: And, of course, your people found an answer? Mr. Spock: We disposed of emotion, Doctor. Where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence.”— Shimon Wincelberg, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com
“Change has occurred so rapidly for our species that now we are equipped with brains that are super sensitive to threat but also super capable of planning, thinking, forecasting and looking ahead. So we essentially drive ourselves nuts worrying about things because we have too much time and don’t hav…”— Ahmad Hariri, nytimes.com
“The moment you're craving isn't anchored in real emotion. It's a script dictated to you by our society's patriarchal love narrative.”— Rene Gube, Heather Davis, Vella Lovell, imdb.com
“I’ll never fall in love again… it’s like having two souls at the same time.”— Gabriel Garcíia Marquez, amazon.com
“Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.”— J.A. Redmerski, amazon.com
“There’s a concept in psychology called the 'need for affect,' which measures the level of intensity at which people want to feel things — not necessarily happiness or other positive emotions, but anything at all.”— Cari Romm, thecut.com
“Then came a touch — soft and sweet as a rose-leaf pressed against his lips — and for one moment he remembered nothing — he was caught up like Homer's Paris in a cloud of gold, and knew not which was earth or heaven.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.”— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com
“There is too little mystery in the world; too many people say exactly what they feel or want.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“Fear, it’s the strongest human emotion bred into us for one purpose, to keep us alive. But it can also kill us, if we let it.”— Michael Taylor, Quinn, Marton Csokas, imdb.com
“Recalling failures does little to enhance self-control, despite conventional wisdom that one learns from their past mistakes. In fact, our results instead argue that focusing on one’s past mistakes may doom us to repeat them.”— Kristin Wong, thecut.com
“Insults are effective only where emotion is present.”— Gilbert Ralston, Gene L. Coon, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com
“Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence.”— Shimon Wincelberg, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com
“Negative emotions don’t just cause negative thoughts, they cause excessively negative thoughts, that reflect a distorted picture of reality. Anxiety causes us to overestimate how dangerous things are, depression makes our situation seem hopeless, and anger makes small slights seem like major attacks…”— Spencer Greenberg, spencergreenberg.com
“Let your heart break. It will change what you do with your optimism.”— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu
“There is no one more fascinating – no one more alive with the possibilities of life, no one more curious to learn from an adult or mentor who will spend some time with her. For energy…for spontaneity…for a sense of the full range of human emotion, there’s nothing like having a teenage girl in your l…”— Melinda Gates, gatesfoundation.org