Quotes about Moods

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them. Votes: 4

Moods should be heard but never danced to. Votes: 3

Moods are adjectives of the grammar of life. Votes: 3

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. Votes: 3

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm. Votes: 3

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt. Votes: 3

Nature's Moods The water is always changing and whenever you look at it you get something back. I'm sure the water isn't aware of me but I'm very much aware of it. Living by the water means constant company. Votes: 3

Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little. Votes: 3

I am a believer that color affects people's moods. Votes: 2

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird. Votes: 2

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods. Votes: 2

I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat. Votes: 2

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness. Votes: 2

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. Votes: 2

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. Votes: 2

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. Votes: 2

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. Votes: 2

The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts. Votes: 2

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world. Votes: 2

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. Votes: 2

I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods. Votes: 2

There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires. Votes: 2

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red. Votes: 2

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. Votes: 2

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. Votes: 2

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces. Votes: 2

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. Votes: 2

Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now. Votes: 2

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community. Votes: 2

I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry. Votes: 2

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself. Votes: 2

There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call 'mela' or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean. Votes: 2

Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain. Votes: 2

Better moods = better performance. Votes: 0

Certain rhythms just have certain moods. Votes: 0

Nature reflects the moods of the wizard. Votes: 0

Our moods do not believe in each other. Votes: 0

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods. Votes: 0

My moods are continuously shifting like the weather. Votes: 0

This garden has a soul, I know its moods. Votes: 0

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Votes: 0

Don't surrender leadership of your life to your moods Votes: 0

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions Votes: 0

They say music can alter moods and talk to you. Votes: 0

To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods. Votes: 0

Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods. Votes: 0

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky. Votes: 0

I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods. Votes: 0

I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy. Votes: 0

[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods. Votes: 0

Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation. Votes: 0

But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now. Votes: 0

The job of the critic is to report to us his moods. Votes: 0

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Votes: 0

When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens Votes: 0

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving. Votes: 0

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks. Votes: 0

I feel bad about that, that I worship celebrities... but their moods create weather. Votes: 0

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can't control my moods. Votes: 0

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did. Votes: 0

My mind moves very fast. I go through a lot of moods and emotions. Votes: 0

We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts. Votes: 0

A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms. Votes: 0

Vogue is not a practical magazine, it provides sensations, feeling, moods, you like the photos. Votes: 0

You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same. Votes: 0

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life. Votes: 0

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? Votes: 0

I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter. Votes: 0

Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs. Votes: 0

My practice schedule is not constant and changes a lot and depends on my moods also. Votes: 0

Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws. Votes: 0

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. Votes: 0

The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise. Votes: 0

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. Votes: 0

Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters. Votes: 0

I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that. Votes: 0

I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions. Votes: 0

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed. Votes: 0

What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive. Votes: 0

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods. Votes: 0

Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?" Votes: 0

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. Votes: 0

I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being. Votes: 0

When you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come Votes: 0

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs. Votes: 0

the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation. Votes: 0

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods. Votes: 0

You never know which Elle you're going to see day to day, because I wake up in different moods. Votes: 0

I think most people now listen to different genres when they have different moods. I know I certainly do. Votes: 0

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors. Votes: 0

A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods. Votes: 0

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport. Votes: 0

The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries. Votes: 0

Dance we shall to the song of our hearts as moods sway to dreamy winds under the crescent moon shade. Votes: 0

Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world. Votes: 0

Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues. Votes: 0

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people. Votes: 0

Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny. Votes: 0

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense. Votes: 0

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications. Votes: 0

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether. Votes: 0

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion. Votes: 0

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. Votes: 0

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man. Votes: 0

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot. Votes: 0

I think weather affects my mood a lot more than I thought, and I like to be in bad moods sometimes. Votes: 0

...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance. Votes: 0

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves. Votes: 0

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. Votes: 0

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods. Votes: 0

Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras. Votes: 0

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods. Votes: 0

Music has a very powerful and wonderful influence in establishing feelings and moods that can lift and elevate your thoughts and your actions. Votes: 0

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. Votes: 0

Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood. Votes: 0

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks. Votes: 0

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies. Votes: 0

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy. Votes: 0

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts. Votes: 0

In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract. Votes: 0

I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, 'I'm lighthearted today, I'm gonna do this.' Votes: 0

Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods. Votes: 0

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand. Votes: 0

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods. Votes: 0

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods. Votes: 0

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly. Votes: 0

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect. Votes: 0

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. Votes: 0

We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than from anything else. Votes: 0

It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts. Votes: 0

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective. Votes: 0

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so. Votes: 0

Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted. Votes: 0

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. Votes: 0

I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair. Votes: 0

Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology. Votes: 0

Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past. Votes: 0

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods. Votes: 0

We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods. Votes: 0

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide. Votes: 0

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. Votes: 0

Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives. Votes: 0

Your thoughts and actions not only influence your mood, but the moods of all you cross paths with. Thinking lovingly. Do lovingly. Be a messenger for love. Votes: 0

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time. Votes: 0

The more a person feels skilled, the more her moods will improve; while the more challenges that are present, the more her attention will become focused and concentrated. Votes: 0

Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them. Votes: 0

Sometimes I'll read something on Twitter, and I'll just be in the darkest of moods for the rest of the day or the rest of the week sometimes. Votes: 0

There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back. Votes: 0

I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life. Votes: 0

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else. Votes: 0

Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are. Votes: 0

Mozart resolved his emotions on a level that transformed them into moods uncontaminated by mortal anguish, enabling him to express the angelic anguish that is so peculiarly his own. Votes: 0

Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady.... Votes: 0

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth. Votes: 0

The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature. Votes: 0

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth." Votes: 0

Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. Votes: 0

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell. Votes: 0

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. Votes: 0

Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity? Votes: 0

Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not I want to sit down. Votes: 0

[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably. Votes: 0

The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn. Votes: 0

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. Votes: 0

Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer. Votes: 0

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse. Votes: 0

Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away. Votes: 0

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression. Votes: 0

When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free. Votes: 0

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man. Votes: 0

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. Votes: 0

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here. Votes: 0

I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what's going on for you, and you answer to that voice within that's calling for particular things. Votes: 0

We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb. Votes: 0

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them. Votes: 0

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders. Votes: 0

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering. Votes: 0

I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist. Votes: 0

I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist. Votes: 0

Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways. Votes: 0

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. Votes: 0

Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety. Votes: 0

The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror. Votes: 0

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay. Votes: 0

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk. Votes: 0

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out. Votes: 0

His moods changed minute to minute, and Jan could change him quicker than anyone. The more he loved her the more mixed up he got. He was such a beautiful man, but so unstable. Votes: 0

The problem with feelings is neither that our moods fluctuate nor that our emotions seem to fail us. The greater dilemma is that most have only learned how to dance to one type of feeling. Votes: 0

The water moves on, a little faster than before, yet still the great river flows. It is as fluid and unpredictable in its moods as it has ever been, but it meanders within familiar banks. Votes: 0

Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable. Votes: 0

Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency. Votes: 0