The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . . — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
“Real leadership is treating your least favorite employee the same as your favorite” — Hanna Hasl-Kelchner Copy Share Image
HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Sentiment is an echo of violence. It's not really a vital expression.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The season, the scene, the air, were all favourable to tenderness and sentiment.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The growth of Sentiment is the increase of suffering; man is never entirely miserable until he finds out how wronged he is… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
“Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a… — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
“Has it ever happened to you," Léon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, some… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by… — David Hume Copy Share Image
With the Echoes tour there was quite a lot of people who came to the shows that were attracted by the music… — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
“The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity.” — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
When a part of our nation gets knocked down, we come together to help pick it up again. No questions asked. That's… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
“He did not begin by tearing down, or by painting so intense a picture of misery and injustice that you burned to… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound… — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
“We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
“For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“I was fourteen then. He was eighteen. Everything is biographical, Lucien Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of… — George Inness Copy Share Image
“I see a cathedral, for instance, one that’s stood for centuries and I marvel and I wonder... How many people passed through… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
“PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“To speak disrespectfully of love is, I know, high treason against sentiment and fine feelings; but I wish to speak the simple… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The sentiment may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sentiment. The universe sees no distinction… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue. Now, I can’t look at your… — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
