One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Everyone wants the same; everyone is the same; he who has other sentiments goes voluntarily into the madhouse.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment. — Eddie Albert Copy Share Image
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments. — John Hall Copy Share Image
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I am much obliged by the favorable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service… — George Stephenson Copy Share Image
At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it. It has… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish.… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful. — Matt Corby Copy Share Image
I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse 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
We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero. — James Otis Copy Share Image
Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will? — Honore de Balzac 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
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. — Samuel Prout Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear people utter anti-German sentiments, I say: You can't blame Germany for defending its own interests. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
