I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love… — Trevor McDonald Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
“The life we lead is a front for all which the frightful criminal filthymindedness of some of us has left us. A… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I think you can take the recent war in Lebanon as a very good example of how this plays. The Americans and… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life.… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Even after the whole democratization process, it's quite clear that the United States are not seen in a positive way in all… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say:… — Berthe Morisot Copy Share Image
Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face… — Confucius Copy Share Image
God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times,… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
I agree with the sentiment that it's probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren't so than to not believe something… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right… — Aaron Klein Copy Share Image
Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments,… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the… — James Madison Copy Share Image