World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
“Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he… — John Green Copy Share Image
Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they… — Ron Shelton Copy Share Image
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
It's hard when u meet the right LOVE at the wrong TIME, but what's more painful is when u have to GIVE… — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to… — Adrian Carton de Wiart Copy Share Image
Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality." — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
“Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
