Sentiment Quotes
367 quotes by 284 authors
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Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can…
— Helen Keller
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural…
— Edward Abbey
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It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.…
— George Washington
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I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times,…
— Ray Bradbury
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
— Marquis de Sade
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The revolution is now just a sentiment.
— Pier Paolo Pasolini
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That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our…
— Walter Savage Landor
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The union of a want and a sentiment.
— Honore de Balzac
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Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.
— Lynn Freed
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Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and…
— Julia Serano
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I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation…
— Herbert Hoover
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Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality…
— Kenzaburo Oe
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Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and…
— William Allen White
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That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not…
— Samuel Johnson
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The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of…
— Helen Keller
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