“I wish I could be with you all,' I responded, getting all worked up myself over someone I had almost entirely stopped… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I don't feel sentimental about the past, but I can't help noticing how hard it has become to keep a grip on… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I feel unabashedly Indian, and this means that not just do I jump to my feet and sing along with the national… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side.… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Give and you shall receive' is not sentimental idealism, it is a simple, practical rule. That which we can and must give… — LORD NORTHBOURNE Copy Share Image
The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
American media seem to color events by refracting them through a sickeningly sentimental prism. Their efforts to create reality on the ground… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I have so many pieces that once belonged to my mom and both of my grandmothers. All of these pieces are very… — Kourtney Kardashian Copy Share Image
These words "accessible" and "emotionally available" get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers - or the reverse - if… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I guess it's a little bit sentimental, but at the time I was really very focused in on really my performance. Afterwards,… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
It's at my mom's house! She keeps everything. We were talking about it the other day - I threw something away, like… — Jodi Sweetin Copy Share Image
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial.… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things and then they'd get sick and people die… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
There was a guy called Carlos Thompson, who was I think Argentinian, and he was doing a series called 'Sentimental Agent'. That… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God,… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,'… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I try to talk openly from how I feel. People may not agree with it. It may sound foreign to them. That's… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
