Sentiments Quotes

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

Whenever I hear people utter anti-German sentiments, I say: You can't blame Germany for defending its own interests.

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

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

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

Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern.

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.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

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

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

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

Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users sentiments.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

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

He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence.

Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.

Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .

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 instrumentality for its higher utterance.

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

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.