Top 438 Sentiments Quotes & Sayings

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

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads. They never hear it from anywhere else. Nobody's supposed to think that. ... Since there's no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don't pay any attention to what's going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

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

HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.

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

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.

I may be working in different languages, but the sentiments of audiences remain the same.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.

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

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

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

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

Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude.

All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.

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

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

I have never deliberately tried to hurt someone's sentiments.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask why this unforeseen aesthetic and ethnic debasement of their values came about, or why monuments have not adapted to the times. Perhaps, instead of evoking authentic religious, patriotic or mystical sentiments, they evoke only the customary ersatz for these sentiments and have suffered the fate of becoming sentimental.

Some of the comments that have been uttered about Islam do not reflect the sentiments of my government or the sentiments of most Americans. Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion, a religion that respects others. Ours is a country based upon tolerance and we welcome people of all faiths in America.

If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.

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

Sometimes sentiments were better left in song.

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

I have always lived among the people of Gujarat. I know public sentiments.

In matters of state, one has to be full of sentiments, but one can never be sentimental.

Some people value sentiments over diamonds.

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

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

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

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

I'm not really one of these people who's been known for particularly hopeful sentiments.

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

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

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.

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 morals, if particular characters had no certain or determinate power to produce particular sentiments, and if these sentiments had no constant operation on actions?

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

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

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

A movie should be made keeping in mind they are not hurting any religious sentiments.

Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.

Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.

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

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

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

Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

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

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.