I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage.… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
A mother is someone who dreams great dreams for you, but then she lets you chase the dreams you have for yourself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the… — Hans Hinrich Wendt Copy Share Image
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes… — Adam Hasner Copy Share Image
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say:… — Berthe Morisot Copy Share Image
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
