Quotes About Sentiment

Before we had stifled the cross into a symbol, before we had softened grace into a sentiment, before we had systematized the power and mystery of God's greatest revelation of Himself into a set of dogmas, we were the children that we must become again.

I love romantic poetry.

He will love this music to death. In a few more years, he'll snort at its sentiment and mock its stirring progressions. Once you've loved like that, the only safe haven is resentment.

genuine sentiment rather than just nostalgia, always a bit of a cheap emotion

For as long as I can remember, I was frighteningly, although often wonderfully, beholden to moods.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

I really appreciated having the tape-and that song-back again. Even then, it was mainly a nostalgia thing, and today, if I happen to get the tape out and look at it, it brings back memories of that afternoon in Norfolk every bit as much as it does our Hailsham days.

The earlier years - the ones I've just been telling you about - they tend to blur into each other as a kind of golden time, and when I think about them at all, even the not-so-great things, I can't help feeling a sort of glow.

It's just a bit of nostalgia to pass the time.

What made the tape so special for me was this one particular song: track number three, "Never Let Me Go.

I felt mildly peculiar to be treasuring love letters for their grammar, but there was nothing else I could treasure them for.

La relación de amor no es la misma que la de la adoración. Se adora a un dios. Solo los seres humanos pueden ser amados. Cuando adoramos a una mujer no podemos amarla. Luego, cuando descubrimos que no es un dios, la odiamos. Eso es triste. —Nunca

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

Even if we, as northerners, choose to ignore this history, the victims' descendants [of the global south] will not. Muslims, like Jews, increasingly probe into and publicize their holocaust. The "deep past" already plays a significant role in the growth of Muslim sentiment toward the Christian North. It will play an important role in international affairs far into the future

A very beadle to a humorous sigh.

Sweets to the sweet.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

When I was in fifth grade, the class celebrated Valentines's Day by sending valentines to as many people as we wanted. If you were sweet on a girl, you would send one to her. You might send one to a friend on the football team telling him it was nice to be on the same team. I sent six valentines to myself so I would not be humiliated by receiving no valentines. Those were the only six valentines I received.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.