Sentiments Quotes · Page 12

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

— Italo Calvino

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.

— Martyn

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

— George W. Bush

I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook,…

— Horace Walpole

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

— Isaac D'Israeli

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

— William Hazlitt

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other…

— Leland Stanford

I think it's interesting how people act on their beliefs. A lot of Christians, for instance, wear crosses around their necks. Nice…

— Bill Hicks

This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as…

— Humphry Davy

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated…

— Agnes Repplier

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not…

— Anonymous

Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable…

— J.R. Ward

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned…

— James B. Weaver

But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves…

— Alexander Pushkin

[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those…

— James Madison

...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

You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that…

— John Green

I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except…

— Margaret Thatcher

At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created…

— Stefan Sagmeister

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and…

— Abigail Adams

Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;…

— Samuel Johnson

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

— Edmund Burke

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

— Paul Gauguin

How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?

— Barack Obama

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.

— Adolf Eichmann

Customs and traditions followed in North and South India are different. But the underlying sentiments are the same.

— Raashi Khanna

I may be working in different languages, but the sentiments of audiences remain the same.

— Catherine Tresa

Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.

— Ramakrishna

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain…

— Agnes Repplier

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments…

— Samuel Johnson

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his…

— John Quincy Adams

This is the age of the new tolerance and it is producing a bumper crop of anti-Christian and anti-American sentiment.

— Josh McDowell

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

— Colin Meloy

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see…

— Andre Gide