Sentiments Quotations

Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

To overawe, or intimidate, or, when we cannot persuade with reason, to resist with fortitude, are the occupations which give its most animating exercise, and its greatest triumphs, to a vigorous mind; and he who has never struggled with his fellow-creatures, is a stranger to half the sentiments of mankind.

The sentiment of fear is nearly allied to that of hatred.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

more clear in dissociating myself from anti-Catholic sentiments and racial prejudice.

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon --that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on --Judibras

Chinese leaders do not want to allow the society's sentiments to affect the complete control of foreign policy and they also understand that nationalism can be a double-edged sword,

If Billy is willing to offer it and Rickey is ready to retire, I'd be happy to negotiate a one-day contract. But I don't know what Rickey's sentiments are on the topic. The last time I talked to Rickey, he said he'd like to be the leadoff hitter and starting outfielder for some team in the major leagues. I don't know if he's had a change of heart.

I echo the sentiments of the council and agree that a tremendous amount of progress was made in a relatively short amount of time. We look forward to our meetings next week with a goal to conclude a final agreement that continues the city on a bright path.

Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.

My sentiments today are those of a proud and loving son, who hopes that you will join with me in wishing the queen the happiest of happy birthdays, together with the fervent prayer that there will be countless memorable returns of the day.

We know that the negative sentiments are more prevalent among the middle-aged rather than the young,

We're not used to seeing any videogames character express sentiments like fear, uncertainty or remorse.

You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

With exceptional efficiency and amiability, he led a court that put the brakes on some of the excesses of the Earl Warren era while keeping pace with the sentiments of a majority of the country. His administration of the court was brilliantly if quietly effective, making him one of the most impressive chief justices of the past hundred years.

Both sides have to be careful, they have to be responsive to the rising nationalist sentiments in their respective countries, so there is very limited room for maneuver,

The governor has expressed, fairly consistently, some sentiments about wanting this measure resolved in the courts. We are asking him to re-look at this based on the legislature's vote and the most recent polls.

Early on after Sept. 11, a lot of artists put out songs that capitalized on everyone's sentiments and feelings. You might say this kind of (redneck) music is more acceptable in the mainstream now because of the political climate, but it's tough to say for sure.

These sentiments are completely and totally unacceptable, ... I felt a real sense of revulsion at those remarks.

are outlaws or terrorists ... who do not represent the sentiments of the people of the towns.

A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

It is the actions of men and not their sentiments that make history. Our sentiments can be loaded with love within, but our actions can turn into the opposite. Perversity is always ready to consort with human nature.

Despite being private communication between two colleagues, the e-mails caused great embarrassment to ABC News, and the sentiments expressed in them were outrageous. Green has expressed his regret and ABC News has made it clear to the White House and to Secretary Albright that this is not the way we do business.

It's very frustrating and I've got contrasting sentiments even though this is a good night for us.

The Chinese side, of course, said there is no room for compromise. I told them that this issue is related to the public sentiments of the two countries. The mutual understanding of the two countries is important.

I'm really concerned with what's happening. I don't know if the donations will ever stop coming in. I think the people of Singapore are very generous. They are kind and very supportive. They may hear a lot of noise but they have sentiments in them, and they will continue to donate.

I know I've erred in the past putting too much of my social justice sentiments in comics, but hopefully not too much, and I tried to only do that with characters that it made sense with it. These days, with the 'social justice' aspects of the two books I write, 'Catwoman' and 'Katana,' the concerns are more about moral justice.

Investors, analysts, everybody that has anything to do with Wall Street is looking for the market to go down. And in that environment the sentiments becomes so negative that there is only one direction that the market can go, and that it up.

If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

By breaking his own promises, Chen is attempting to stir up the secessionist sentiments in Taiwan and create confrontations between different groups of people in the island, as well as to provoke the mainland and strain the cross-Straits relations.

I am much obliged by the favorable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.

The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

As a human sentiment, it's touching to behold.

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.

Some people value sentiments over diamonds.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

These humanitarian missions are a reflection of the sentiments of solidarity of the people of Mexico with the U.S. population,

The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.