Sentiments Quotes · Page 9

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

— Henry Ward Beecher

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.

— Suzanne Curchod

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the…

— Isaac Watts

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

— Anonymous

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.

— Caspar David Friedrich

Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.

— Sarah Dessen

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

— David Hume

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

— Michel de Montaigne

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that…

— Naoto Kan

Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables.…

— Richard Brookhiser

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist…

— Rebecca West

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to…

— Julianne Malveaux

Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it…

— Henry Rollins

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of…

— Andrew Motion

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which…

— Wilfrid Laurier

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General…

— Benjamin Franklin

Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys…

— Roberto Benigni

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as…

— Oscar Wilde

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for…

— Tracy K. Smith

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been…

— Grover Cleveland

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The…

— Jim Harrison

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation,…

— Victor Hugo

Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement…

— Arianna Huffington

“Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men…

— Louisa May Alcott

A mother is like an island in life's ocean vast and wide, a peaceful quiet shelter from the restless tide.

— Anonymous

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

— Bertrand Russell

Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude.

— Bruno Dumont

Sentiments Activities may be for a while but are true like reflection of soul.

— Mak_786

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

— Leonard Maltin

Most media leaders are liberal and much of their programming reflects anti-Christian sentiment.

— Tim LaHaye

“When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment.”

— Agatha Christie

All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.

— Walter Cronkite

nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

— Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

— Norman Mailer

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

— Paul Watson

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

— Thomas Jefferson

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

— Jules Verne

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson