Sentiments Quotes · Page 9

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

— Wilfrid Laurier

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

— Swami Vivekananda

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.

— Madame de Stael

Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

— Judith Ellen Foster

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

— Norman Mailer

All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.

— Walter Cronkite

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

— Jules Verne

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so…

— Cecilia Bartoli

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend…

— John Woolman

There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular…

— David Hume

Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again,…

— John Ruskin

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they…

— James Madison

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override…

— Bill Richardson

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

That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes…

— Thomas Jefferson

I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come…

— Bernie Siegel

By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I…

— Uri Avnery

“The theme of Smith’s first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, was the innate honesty of mankind. “How selfish soever man may…

— Steven D. Levitt

Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be…

— Ogden Nash

In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past…

— Sadao Araki

There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart,…

— Stefan Zweig

At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within…

— David Berlinski

Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which…

— Erasmus Darwin

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

— Thomas Jefferson

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

— Paul Watson

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

— Honore de Balzac

“Tot i la meva efervescència no maleïa una gent, només els sentiments que encara m'unien al passat.”

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up!

— Pope Francis

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

— David Levithan

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may…

— Louis Pasteur

“Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.”

— Raheel Farooq

“There's more to life than regurgitating other people's sentiments--lest that is one's career.”

— Gasmaskman

“Who can call a man dead whose words still hush and whose sentiments move?”

— Clive Barker

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

— Bertrand Russell

By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."

— Gordon S. Wood

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

— James Otis

the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his…

— John Quincy Adams