Sentiments Quotes

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

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

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

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

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

Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.

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.

Some people value sentiments over diamonds.

Any democratic sentiment propels my politics.

Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious.

Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost."

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

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.

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

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

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 heart's sentiments.

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

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

Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants these policies are a recipe for stagnation.

Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

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

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

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.

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

It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.

Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.

It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.

I'm not religious, and I feel that has to do with me being uprooted so many times in my life that I've explored many religions and sentiments from many different families basically across the globe.

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

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