Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“You want this thing, this dragonsoul, for sentimental purposes. Because you can't let go of the glory days, or you long for… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones.… — Tracey Ullman Copy Share Image
It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
"When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it... live it...and never give it back.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
I always loved horror as a kid. On the one hand, I really love monsters, because in a way I feel like… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
What moves me is to know that I have been part of the sentimental life of many couples around the world. — Jose Jose 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
Some of them [family names] have sentimental value for some reason or another, some of them just sound beautiful. Some of them… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I've never been sentimental about my horse. The horse doesn't give a damn about you. If you want to know the truth… — Tim McCoy Copy Share Image
Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti). — Pandurang Shastri Athavale Copy Share Image
High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental. — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
“My heart’s been empty since you left - but still I refuse to put up a vacancy sign. I’m just not ready… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Love is at once the most creative and yet simultaneously destructive force in the world, and thus, in our lives. And I… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
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