The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
The United States, after all, was founded by men of liberal sentiment who were seeking to promote the greatest good for the… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage.… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if… — Daniel Coit Gilman Copy Share Image
Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Florey was not an easy personality. His drive and ambition were manifest from the day he arrived ... He could be ruthless… — Allen Drury Copy Share Image
When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too… — Sangharakshita Copy Share Image
The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
I'm not religious, and I feel that has to do with me being uprooted so many times in my life that I've… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
A mother is neither cocky nor proud because she knows the school principle may call at any minute to report that her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Each tree has its own personality, i chose them by the way I felt at the moment. Sometimes they even change my… — Fabien Le Coq Copy Share Image
A mother laughs our laughs, sheds our tears, returns our love, fears our fears. She lives our joys, cares our cares and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
For reasons of sentiment, I would like part of my ashes to be mixed up with Mama's, and both her ashes and… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I hate sentiment when it's inappropriate. I saw someone who went and saw an exhibition and came out in tears. If an… — Pierre Berge 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
The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
