Sentiments Quotes
583 quotes by 415 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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
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It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
— Aldous Huxley
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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
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High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.
— Thomas Kinkade
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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
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
— Abraham Lincoln
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
— Abraham Lincoln
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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
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
— Adolf Loos
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
— James Russell Lowell
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
— James Madison
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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
— Norman Mailer
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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
— Norman Mailer
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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
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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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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