I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a… — Betty White Copy Share Image
Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of dystopian literature tends to be really moralizing and just doesn't tend to give credence to the… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I have complicated feelings about nostalgia. I think that sometimes it can be dangerous. It can airbrush the truth, or fictionalize the… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it... live it...and never give it back.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I’m rather sentimental about the ruins—as a child, I halfheartedly attempted suicide there now and again, always returning from post-tourist-hours expeditions with… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“I don't really ask myself too much where the ideas come from. When things touch you or anger you, you are moved… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I have a love/hate relationship with Amy Grant, but I do go back to her Christmas albums once in a while. They're… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I sighed. Two goodbyes in one night. It was depressing. And it wasn’t as though I had a whole Rolodex full of… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Traditional graffiti writers have a bunch of rules they like to stick to, and good luck to them, but I didn't become… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly -… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
If your great-great-grandfather participated on the Confederate side, and you hold some sentimental value to that, and you want to fly the… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
The spirit of Christmas needs to superseded by the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Christmas is annual; the Spirit of Christ… — Stuart Briscoe Copy Share Image
It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he… — Mary Pickford Copy Share Image
The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am professional. Hardworking. Committed. Loyal. Also sentimental. But I had changed a little over the years. There was a bit of… — Meredith Vieira Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice,… — Helen Thompson Woolley Copy Share Image
Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant;… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Even in those pieces that seemed to be casually tossed off, I was always searching for the right word, for the proper… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
![“I don't really ask myself too much where the ideas come from. When things touch you or anger you, you are moved to want to examine them, to reflect on them. But yes, I guess you could say ['Amour'] is a memento mori, though it would never occur to me to use that term, since it might sound a little…” quote by Michael Haneke](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cd6/michael-haneke-3712_idea_i-don-t-really-ask-myself-too-much-where_977505.jpg)
![“[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)” quote by Stephen Batchelor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/04b/stephen-batchelor-5328_antidote_mindfulness-is-not-concerned-with-anythi_151409.png)
