Sentiments Quotes

583 quotes by 425 authors

Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery. — Lynn Freed
Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and… — Julia Serano
When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine… — Hans Hinrich Wendt
I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation… — Herbert Hoover
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective… — Ulysses S. Grant
Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments.… — Arianna Huffington
Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality… — Kenzaburo Oe
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. — Henry David Thoreau
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and… — William Allen White
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people… — Thomas Jefferson
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and… — John Peter Zenger
Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not… — Samuel Johnson
How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of… — David Hume
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the… — David Hume
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of… — Helen Keller
You cannot mix up sentiment and reason. — Agatha Christie
Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment… — Frederick Douglass
There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For… — Fernando Pessoa
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. — Georges Braque

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