Quotes About Sentiment

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

with dear old

but her expression was

I want to be happy and sad at the same time. Yeah, I know it sounds sappy.

You can't put a price tag on love. But if you could, I'd wait for it to go on sale.

like Burnham Overy at all, really," he added. "They

Lost causes had a romantic charm for her

Life has become too telegraphic for curiosity to linger on any given point in a sentimental relation;

Passion, the artist implied, would have been the dominant note of his life, had it not been held in check by a sentiment of exalted chivalry, and by the sense that a nature of such emotional intensity as his must always be ridden on the curb.

If love as a sentiment was the discovery of the medieval poets, love as a moral emotion might be called that of the eighteenth-century philosophers, who, for all their celebration of free unions and fatal passions, were really on the side of the angels, were fighting the battle of the spiritual against the sensual, of conscience against appetite.

I thought that to write of my own experiences would require a translation out of the crude patois of actual slow suffering—mean, scattered thoughts and transfusion-slow boredom—into the tidy couplets of brisk, beautiful sentiment, a way of at once elevating and lending momentum to what I felt.

Her little treasures. Each item reminding her of someone or of something.

La Sociedad Científicos Sentimentales era una locura. Pero tal vez hace falta un poco de locura entre tanta exactitud y precisión. Serán buenos los cálculos y los teoremas inexpugnables, si es que se aplican a rombos, ángulos y cubos. Pero empiezan a fallar cuando se trata de personas.

And sad memories eventually spoil thoughts of the places that recall them. And if they happen to be our birthplaces, those memories are liable to be even harsher and more poignant. (644)

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

carved this for Gaius just days before he left," he said, his voice thick. He didn't add

It is always the silly things that remind me

if you love someone your heart will always remember them. Even if the mind doesn't, the heart never forgets.

A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever...

Though what is understood as religious sentiment comes next to the love of individuals for each other in the extent of its influence, it has produced much verse, but, it must be allowed, little poetry, the reason probably being that the religious sentiment of the few who are endowed with the gift of writing poetry differs from that of the average "religious" person.

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

I have a lot of affection for those old shows. You can put on an episode of 'Full House' or 'Family Matters' or 'Growing Pains' now and I'll watch it. And I'll totally enjoy it.

I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs.