Sentiments Quotes · Page 11

“[Nostalgic sentiments] are nothing other than the rosy illumination of a past that has been spared the shadows of the present.”

— Georg Simmel

Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.

— Mason Cooley

“Just an emotional response of sentiments will only lead to tiredness and weariness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.”

— Raheel Farooq

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

— Georges Braque

People, based on their emotion, will express support for the sentiment, not necessarily the specifics 'cause there are none.

— Jeb Bush

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

— William Hamilton Maxwell

Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important…

— Fidel Castro

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and…

— Mary Ruefle

I love "Heartbreaker." "Heartbreaker" stands up for me still. It still works to me. The sentiment is still timely and it just…

— Pat Benatar

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant…

— Maturin Murray Ballou

Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and…

— John Adams

The Party leader at the time, Jiang Zemin, wanted to show the world China's new status. And in winning the bid, the…

— Liu Xiaobo

Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable…

— David Hume

“I’m too romantic for my own good. And okay, you get kicked in the butt sometimes. But, frankly, I’d rather have, you…

— Tom Rachman

One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of…

— George Inness

Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined…

— James Burnham

Many priests say that retirement is more identified with freedom from meetings, budgets, personnel conflicts, and "dealing with the Chancery." Even as…

— Wilton Daniel Gregory

And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the…

— MURS

Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors…

— William Gilmore Simms

The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA…

— Rick Strassman

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

— Italo Calvino

Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.

— Martyn

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

— George W. Bush

I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook,…

— Horace Walpole

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

— Isaac D'Israeli

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

— Ambrose Bierce

Turn back the past so you will know the unspoken thoughts or sentiments.

— Tracy Delos Santos

“I hate talking when there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received”

— Anne Brontë

If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

— J. D. Salinger

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

— Paul Gauguin

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?

— Barack Obama

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

— William Hazlitt