But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“IT metrics need to evolve to something that matters to the business audience, at the same time that “business sentiment” needs to… — Pearl Zhu 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
“What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing to find in the world today is an argument. Because so few are thinking, naturally there are found but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Man cannot do without feelings, but the moment they are considered values in themselves, criteria of truth, justifications for kinds of behavior,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movement is a sentiment in… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Unpublished. What if I, revealed these feelings private pieces, cast… at stranger’s eyes exposing sober thought, and truth as sentiments, lie deep… — Bev Flynn Copy Share Image
“Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 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
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language.… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“Nici nu ar fi numit iubire decat acel sentiment eroic ce se putea intalni in Franta lui Henric al III-lea si Bassompierre,… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
The fact that, for so many generations, ordinary, everyday Americans came out of the closet and told their family and friends about… — Mark Takano Copy Share Image
“Christianity isn’t worth a snap of your finger if it doesn’t straighten out your character. I have got tired of all mere… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
“He returned her gaze, yearning for sentimental solace; love which emanated from a familiar source, mattered little how bedevilling. They shared an… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting… — Charles Eley Copy Share Image
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Never harbor regrets. Such useless emotions detract from an avowed purpose. Spare neither tears nor sentiment, which sap strength and energy. Rather,… — Mary Daheim Copy Share Image
No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can… — Sarah Harmer Copy Share Image
Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
