Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps… — Jeremy Begbie Copy Share Image
Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I do," she said. "I don't want to forget what we had. Ever. In the past, we're perfectly preserved, best friends, in… — Ciara Smyth Copy Share Image
While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads.… — Ernest Gowers Copy Share Image
It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean.… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image