Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
If You Become Too Sentimental It Is Hard To Lead A Life, And If You Become Too Practical It Is Hard To… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and,… — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their… — Francis C Farley Copy Share Image
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances. — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Love is not a mere sentiment. Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species… — Will Christopher Baer Copy Share Image
Sometimes the pain hurts so good it brings happy tears to my eyes and reminds me I'm still alive. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
