I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney,… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained… — Alice Hamilton Copy Share Image
Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness… — Jean Maalouf Copy Share Image
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
“Funny what one's willing to do for family, isn't it?' Fan said, pulse pounding like a jackrabbit's. 'I take no pleasure in… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
