Quotes About Sentiments

Even worse is the discovery that one has been living out certain greeting-card sentiments, with ribbons of middle-class virtue tied in a bow around one's heart.

There were people who believed Herzog was rather simple, that his humane feelings were childish. That he had been spared the destruction of certain sentiments as the pet goose is spared the axe.

We would have a poor idea of marriage and of human affection if we were to think that love and joy come to an end when faced with such difficulties. It is precisely then that our true sentiments come to the surface. Then the tenderness of a person's gift of himself takes root and shows itself in a true and profound affection that is stronger than death.

This sally somewhat nettled Wilhelm; but he concealed his sentiments, remembering that Werner used to listen with composure to his apostrophes.

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.

First, just because people's religious beliefs can be easily accommodated, it does not follow that they should. Sometimes accommodations reinforce sentiments that ought to be repudiated. Second, given that one of the best reasons for religious accommodations is the history of antireligious discrimination, religious accommodations ought not be used as a license to discriminate.

The army is the only order of men sufficiently united to concur in the same sentiments, and powerful enough to impose them on the rest of their fellow-citizens; but the temper of soldiers, habituated at once to violence and to slavery, renders them very unfit guardians of a legal, or even a civil constitution.

Despite either people, who love one's persona or abominates as an enemy; however, among those, the majority of people stay neutral as neither carries love nor triggers revulsion and enmity.

Les bons sentiments sont fragiles. Avec moi, l'amour ne résiste pas.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

A mind may appreciate anyone, but it takes only heart to respect someone and that's applicable to everyone and so trust, none could ever honestly deny the fact that the heart is better than the mind.

A person with human emotions feels suffocation on seeing often around ownself a lot of people, but a self-seeker who is devoid of human sentiments feels proud on seeing oft around oneself public crowd and to please self only even pays them money to praise and raise slogan in favour of his name aloud.

There will be many people to wish 'Happy Birthday' to a person, but a rare few who would actually mean their words.

We are, perhaps, more sensitive about the pedigree of our intellectual creed than we are about the pedigree of our tastes or our sentiments. We like to think that beliefs which claim to be rational are the product of a purely rational process; and though, where others are concerned, we complacently admit the intrusion of non-rational links in the causal chain, we have higher ambitions for ourselves.

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Everyone wants the same; everyone is the same; he who has other sentiments goes voluntarily into the madhouse.

Il possédait, comme son père, une étonnante facilité de s'emballer et de se croire guidé par de bons sentiments.

Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.

Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'

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

Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!

I hate talking where there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received

I hate talking when there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received