The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life. — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.” — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I know the English are terribly sentimental about the sea, but I can live without it.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words. — 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'm incredibly sentimental, although I'm not one of those people who doesn't chuck anything out; I don't keep used tea bags -… — Phillip Schofield Copy Share Image
The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people. — Gregor Strasser Copy Share Image
Two Aspects Of Life : If I've Become Too Sentimental, It Is Too Hard To Lead Life. If I've Become Too Practical,… — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made. — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired,… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm very sentimental and ambitious. I like to be relaxed and I like to live a peaceful existence, but that's very difficult… — Monique Coleman 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
For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been… — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
“Be still, and know that I am God'. We must not interpret that 'Be still' in a sentimental manner. Some regard it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Music, together with certain sorts of majestic landscape, had a well-known tendency to induce such faux-sublime moments: artificial intimations of transcendent truths,… — Zoe Heller Copy Share Image
The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“ABOUT SENTIMENTALITY IN LITERATURE: "Sentimental fiction is a kind of pablum: Excessive amounts can spoil the appetite for reality, or at least… — Alice Simpson Copy Share Image
Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Literature is an aspect of story and story is all that exists to make sense of reality. War is a story. Now… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the dresser; the way they… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine — Carol Alt Copy Share Image
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy. — Mary Ruefle 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
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
