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Quotes About Sentiments

Henri kept everything important in his heart. He mostly kept cookies in his head.
~ Louise Penny
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
~ Unknown
The disjoining of deed from will, of practice from theory, is to put asunder what God has joined by an indissoluble sacrament. The soul must be tainted before the action become corrupt; and 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.
~ Unknown
Ben and I walked by the Forum, which, with the green grass still growing among the stones, seems to be a double ruin: a ruin of antiquity and a monument to the tender sentiments of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travelers, for we see not only the ghosts of Romans here but the shades of ladies with parasols and men with beards and little children rolling hoops.
~ John Cheever
Holding on is good, but sometimes when you surely know that your sentiments are of no value for others... you should move on, remembering that time is a great and ultimate healer.
~ Unknown
The Declaration of Sentiments, written in 1833, reads that our principles 'forbid the doing of evil that good may come, and lead us to reject—and to entreat the oppressed to reject—the use of all carnal weapons for deliverance from bondage; relying solely upon those which are spiritual, and mighty through God
~ Lynn Austin
chez le pire des minables il existe de ces sentiments, sentiments de fierté intransigeante, qui exigent une réciprocité absolue, et qui préfèrent la douleur d'une solitude amère aux joies d'un succès obtenu par l'humiliante intercession de la raison.
~ M. Ageyev
Do you always make beautiful things for those you are angry with?
~ Madeline Miller
If you make a girl laugh, she likes you. If you make a girl cry, she loves you...
~ Unknown
There are times I want to get mad, there are times I want to give you up, there are times I want to cry but no matter how many times I think of this, I always end up saying: I love you very much!
~ Unknown
the sentiments that Albertine had left with me were more difficult to extinguish than the memory of their original cause.
~ Marcel Proust
I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings.
~ John Steinbeck
Dessie's friends were good and loyal but they were human, and humans love to feel good and they hate to feel bad.
~ John Steinbeck
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
~ Mos Def
In life three things we cannot control or stop Thinking, Talking and feelings.
~ Unknown
Even when one is no longer interested in things, it is still something to have been interested in them; because it was always for reasons which other people did not grasp. The memory of those sentiments is, we feel, to be found only in ourselves; we must go back into ourselves to study it.
~ Marcel Proust
As for our sentiments, we have spoken of them too often to repeat again now that as often as not love is nothing more than the association of the face of a girl (whom otherwise we should soon have found intolerable) with the heartbeats inseparable from an endless, vain expectation, and from some trick that she has played upon us. All this is true not merely of imaginative young men brought into contact with changeable girls.
~ Marcel Proust
The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.
~ James Madison
Apologizing does not mean that you are wrong and another person is right. It just means that you value right attitude and sentiments more than ego.
~ Anil Sinha
Del amor al odio, solo hay mas amor
~ Mario Benedetti
They live in a culture that measures success by the number of copies sold not the number of spirits touched. They have to shorten their sentences and compress their sentiments to the common bandwidth.
~ Unknown
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
~ Washington Irving
Thoughts become feelings, feelings become love, and love comes from the heart.
~ Unknown
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
~ James Russel Lowell