Sentiments Quotes
583 quotes by 425 authors
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea…
— John Henry Newman
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or…
— Barack Obama
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These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
— James Otis
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
— Louis Pasteur
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I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.
— Josh Radnor
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
— George Sand
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Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times…
— Jane Smiley
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A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best…
— Leland Stanford
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Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of…
— Cat Stevens
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Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe…
— James Surowiecki
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests…
— Radhanath Swami
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an…
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human…
— Alfred de Vigny
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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
— Voltaire
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It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
— Daniel Webster
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express…
— Rebecca West
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
— Oscar Wilde
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What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom…
— James Wolcott
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I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take…
— John Woolman
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