Sentiments Quotes

583 quotes by 425 authors

Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from… — William Graham Sumner
Given a blank we canâ€™t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those… — Heather McHugh
Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided. — James B. Weaver
Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked… — Robert Graves
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of… — Frans de Waal
For reasons of sentiment, I would like part of my ashes to be mixed up with Mama's, and both her ashes and mine put side… — Lee Kuan Yew
But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments… — Paul Ormerod
Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the… — Miguel de Cervantes
There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the… — John Betjeman
There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of… — U.G. Krishnamurti
The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption… — Alexander Hamilton
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. — Alphonse de Lamartine
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
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events… — John F. Kennedy
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to… — Walter Lippmann
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. — Ambrose Bierce
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob. — Seneca the Younger
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. — James Russell Lowell

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