Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.' — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion. — Jean-Pierre Dardenne Copy Share Image
I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
If something is bound to happen, it will happen. In the right time, with the right person and for the best reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness… — Jean Maalouf Copy Share Image
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel.… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
You judged. They felt attacked and offended. They attacked back. Now you both feel horrible. Simply be conscientious of everything you do.… — Wandini Copy Share Image
“It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
“From Sachs to Kristof to Invisible Children to TED, the fastest growth industry in the US is the White Savior Industrial Complex.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he… — John Green Copy Share Image
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
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