Sentiments Quotes
583 quotes by 425 authors
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you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you more…
— Charlotte Bronte
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It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.
— Barack Obama
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of…
— Abigail Adams
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The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for…
— C.S. Lewis
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Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock.…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You…
— Milan Kundera
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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our…
— David Hume
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The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step…
— Susan B. Anthony
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She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and…
— Jane Austen
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes…
— Victor Hugo
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Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation…
— Winston Churchill
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What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is…
— David Foster Wallace
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People are in one of two states in a relationship,†Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves…
— Emma Forrest
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The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass…
— Rafael Sabatini
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Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you…
— Dorothy Parker
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Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another -…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the…
— J R Ward
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