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
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be… — Adam Gopnik 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
It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The IMF is a more complicated issue. I think there is a broad sentiment among both the left and the right that… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love… — Trevor McDonald Copy Share Image
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
“The life we lead is a front for all which the frightful criminal filthymindedness of some of us has left us. A… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. — William John Wills Copy Share Image
Outpouring of affection for God, of resting in his presence, of good feelings towards everyone and sentiments and prayers like theseare suspect… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican… — Rufus King Copy Share Image
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
At the drop of a hat, people have begun to take offence. You can't write, paint, make films without worrying about some… — Aparna Sen Copy Share Image
We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
One part of love is innocence One part of love is guilt One part the milk that in a sense Is soured… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times,… — David Beckham Copy Share Image