The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . . — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead… — Nicholas A. Basbanes Copy Share Image
Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side. — Thomas Reed Copy Share Image
“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,”… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am for relying for internal defense on our militia solely till actual invasion, and for such a naval force only as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The ironic factor that is between the Houthis and al-Qaida, that is, they both have strong anti-American sentiment. For example, the slogan… — Safa Al Ahmad Copy Share Image
...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment],… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings standing alone rarely express any universal… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“If you currently travel abroad or plan to in the future, make sure you understand the cultural convention of the country that… — Joe Navarro Copy Share Image
A mother is the one through whom God whispers love to His little children. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits. — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
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