Quotes About Sentiments

Human nature...is more powerfully acted on through imagination and sentiments than through intellect and reason.

Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.

Rastopchin, though he had patriotic sentiments, was a sanguine and impulsive man who had always moved in the highest administrative circles and had no understanding at all of the people he supposed himself to be guiding. Ever

The more a man learns, Dickens said, "the better, gentler, kinder man he must become. When he knows how much great minds have suffered for the truth in every age and time… he will become more tolerant of other men's belief in all matters, and will incline more leniently to their sentiments when they chance to differ from his own.

Unlike any earthbound activity, space exploration is limitless, and the technological demands it makes are insatiable. In this sense, spatial adventurism has indeed the sinister advantages of war: all the more effectively because it recovers for popular consumption the archaic sentiments that originally led to the New World exploration of the sixteenth century and later.

I don't think I ever once heard Mum utter a religious or spiritual sentiment, a considerable feat considering that she was married for 57 years to one of the most prominent Catholics in the country.

Quels sont mes vrais héros ? Des sentiments. Des figures abstraites qui n'en vivent pas moins et dont les exigences sont extrêmes.

Given to exaggeration in its feelings, a crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. An orator wishing to move a crowd must make an abusive use of violent affirmations. To exaggerate, to affirm, to resort to repetitions, and never to attempt to prove anything by reasoning are methods of argument well known to speakers at public meetings.

Je me voyais au déclin d'une vie innocente et infortunée l'âme encore pleine de sentiments vivaces et l'esprit encore orné de quelques fleurs, mais déjà flétries par la tristesse et desséchées par les ennuis. Seul et délaissé, je sentais venir le froid des premières glaces, et mon imagination tarissant ne peuplait plus ma solitude d'êtres formés selon mon cÅ"ur. Je me disais en soupirant : qu'ai-je fait ici-bas !

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

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

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.

Damn it. I had to respect Michael Casey. I had really hoped that I could keep loathing him.

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

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

things are very delicate. People tread upon them with too many human feet, with too many sentiments. Only the delicacy of innocence or only the delicacy of the initiate senses its almost nonexistent taste. Before, I needed seasoning for everything, and in that way I skipped over the thing and tasted the taste of the seasoning.

The words that we put into writing are the very same words that come out from our hearts that speak.

Men are not rational beings, as commonly supposed. A man is a bundle of instincts, feelings, sentiments, which severally seek their gratification, and those which are in power get hold of reason and use it to their own ends, and exclude all other sentiments and feelings from power.

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

Il existe dans tous les sentiments humains une fleur primitive, engendrée par un noble enthousiasme qui va toujours faiblissant jusqu'à ce que le bonheur ne soit plus qu'un souvenir et la gloire un mensonge

The most national of all sentiments in France is vanity. The wounded vanity of the many induced a thirst for Equality; though, as the most ardent innovator will some day discover, Equality is an impossibility.

It is against the will of God to eat delicate food hastily, to pass gorgeous views hurriedly, to express deep sentiments superficially, to pass a beautiful day steeped in food and drinks, and to enjoy your wealth steeped in luxuries.

One of the more ignominious features of love was that you could only express it with cliches...it made you sound like a fraud at a time when you were blazing with sincerity.

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.