Sentiment Quotes

367 quotes by 291 authors

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn… — Carter Heyward
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. — Benjamin Disraeli
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is… — Abraham Lincoln
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into… — Luigi Pirandello
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive… — Michael Pollan
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is… — Thomas More
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,… — James Madison
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more… — Thomas Jefferson
A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and… — Jacques Maritain
But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall… — David Hume
You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for… — Barack Obama
One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when… — Shirley Hazzard
No other sentiment draws people to Jerusalem than the desire to see and touch the places where Christ was physically present, and to be able… — Paulinus of Nola
Sometimes, if we are faced with obstacles, be they tangible or not, such as jealousy, worldly sentiment, greed, hatred or obsession, etc., there is no… — Ching Hai
What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what… — Federico Fellini
I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to… — Victor Hugo
Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest,… — Charles Darwin
If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they… — A J P Taylor

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