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 anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
~By Barack Obama ~
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 sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
~By Rebecca West ~
LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.
~By Charles Inglis ~
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
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 advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
~By William James ~
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.
~By Meg Whitman ~
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
~By Orhan Pamuk ~
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
~By George Mason ~
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
~By August Strindberg ~
I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
~By Cornelia Funke ~
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
~By Lionel Blue ~
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 in some quarters.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
~By James Taylor ~
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.
~By John Hall ~
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
~By Michael Lewis ~
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
~By Voltaire ~
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
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 heart.
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
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 principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
~By Bernard de Mandeville ~
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
~By Norman Mailer ~
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
~By Margaret Anderson ~
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.
~By Alfred Day Hershey ~
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
~By Max Beckmann ~
I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite.
~By John Elway ~
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.
~By Akshay Kumar ~
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
~By Daniel Webster ~
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.
~By Bill Richardson ~
For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
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 reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
~By Leland Stanford ~
The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.
~By Gregor Strasser ~
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.
~By Nuno Bettencourt ~
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
~By James Thomson ~
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
~By Karl Kraus ~
As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
~By Eddie Albert ~
I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.
~By Judith Ellen Foster ~
I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
~By Winona Ryder ~
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
~By Samuel Prout ~
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 of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
~By John Henry Newman ~
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
~By Sallust ~
It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.
~By Josiah Warren ~
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
~By Honore De Balzac ~
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 Europe.
~By Cat Stevens ~
The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment.
~By Lee Greenwood ~
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 instrument of its foreign policy.
~By Atal Bihari Vajpayee ~
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
~By Norman Mailer ~
My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.
~By Christopher Gadsden ~
I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
~By Lascelles Abercrombie ~
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
~By Frances Burney ~
I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
~By Alice Hamilton ~
It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists.
~By Curt Siodmak ~
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
~By John Barton ~
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
~By Mark Van Doren ~
Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.
~By Richard Foreman ~
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
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.
~By David Hume ~
It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
~By Max Beckmann ~
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
~By Flannery O'Connor ~
Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.
~By John Surtees ~
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
~By Leonora Carrington ~
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
~By William Godwin ~
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
~By Ugo Betti ~
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
~By Rebecca West ~
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
~By James Earl Jones ~
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
~By James Otis ~
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
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 on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
~By Frank Herbert ~
Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.
~By Toots Thielemans ~
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
~By George Byron ~
In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.
~By Pepper Schwartz ~
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
~By Alfred Day Hershey ~
To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.
~By Lucy Stone ~
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