I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it. — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In matters of state, one has to be full of sentiments, but one can never be sentimental. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This is the age of the new tolerance and it is producing a bumper crop of anti-Christian and anti-American sentiment. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“If we could be humble enough to submit our passions, sentiments and even weaknesses to God Almighty, he would successfully convert them… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance, or to the general sentiment and wish… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender… — David Hume 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
I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think you can take the recent war in Lebanon as a very good example of how this plays. The Americans and… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. — James Otis Copy Share Image
the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence." — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
“Who can call a man dead whose words still hush and whose sentiments move?” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“There's more to life than regurgitating other people's sentiments--lest that is one's career.” — Gasmaskman Copy Share Image
“Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may… — Louis Pasteur 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
“Tot i la meva efervescència no maleïa una gent, només els sentiments que encara m'unien al passat.” — Albert Sánchez Piñol 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
“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image