Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event;… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
These words "accessible" and "emotionally available" get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers - or the reverse - if… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed… — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in… — Crystal Woods Copy Share Image
I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Love is not a sentimental attachment to a human being; love is a mode of conduct that comes from the heart. — Ma Jaya Copy Share Image
Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
