Sentiments Quotes

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I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life,… — Mos Def
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit… — Frank Herbert
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. — David Hume
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. — Aldous Huxley
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken… — William James
High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental. — Thomas Kinkade
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and… — Daniel De Leon
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. — Abraham Lincoln
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. — Abraham Lincoln
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual… — Walter Lippmann
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. — Adolf Loos
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. — James Russell Lowell
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. — James Madison
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. — Norman Mailer
It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. — Norman Mailer
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the… — Bernard de Mandeville
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham
Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and… — Radha Mitchell

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