Sentiment Quotes

367 quotes by 284 authors

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. — Georges Bernanos
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 feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I… — Grover Cleveland
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a… — Jane Addams
Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. — James Madison
Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as… — Benjamin Jowett
How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love? — Barack Obama
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every… — George Washington
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in… — Lord Byron
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it… — Giuseppe Mazzini
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and… — Samuel Johnson
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment... — Edgar Allan Poe
The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time… — Rick Strassman
As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of… — Barbara Kruger
It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and… — Sarah McLachlan
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment. — Eddie Albert
The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's… — Armond White
Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science. — K. W. Jeter
It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we should… — Lucretia Mott

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