Sentiment Quotes

367 Sentiment quotes by 284 unique authors

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill. — Henry Ward Beecher
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of… — Frank Howard Clark
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. — James Russell Lowell
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity… — Edgar Allan Poe
Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment. — Wendy Wasserstein
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical… — Thomas Love Peacock
Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction. — Henri Frederic Amiel
There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way… — Reinhold Niebuhr
A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in… — Kadmi Cohen
As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win… — Christina Romer
A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of… — Josiah Warren
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it… — Victor Cousin
I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they… — Traian Basescu
I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there… — Tommy Davidson
There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric… — David Hume
I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business. — Victor Pinchuk
Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience. — Martyn
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to… — William Winwood Reade

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