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
The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson 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
Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic… — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I grew up in a middle to upper-class house with fairly liberal sentiments, but to me it was always very obvious that… — Pieter Hugo Copy Share Image
The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What will you do with your accomplishments? What, with the largest portion of your mind - sentiments - tastes?" Save them till… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only… — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return!… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Lincoln said, public sentiment is everything. We have to listen to the people and come together as we prioritize our agenda and… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up! — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
