Quotes About Sentiment

He believed that "a day will come when the sexual relations will be regulated in every case by the private will of the parties. The public sentiment, then, or law, … will declare the entire freedom of every man or woman to follow the bent of their private affections, will justify every alliance sanctioned by these affections."31

I haven't the least idea of loving him or anybody else

I hate estimable young men with brown eyes!

A todos ellos gustaba Jo muchísimo, pero ninguno se enamoró de ella, mientras que fueron pocos los que pudieron escaparse de pagar el tributo de un suspiro sentimental ante el altar de Amy.

Sentimental? Yes. Thank Gott, we Germans believe in sentiment, and keep ourselves young mit it. Your English 'you' is so cold, say 'thou,' heart's dearest, it means so much to me, pleaded Mr. Bhaer, more like a romantic student than a grave professor.

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

Was it all self-pity, loneliness, or low spirits? Or was it the waking up of a sentiment which had bided its time as patiently as its inspirer? Who shall say?

A smile of remembrance of lost times.

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

Washington as public sentiment began to lean toward railroad reform.

Sensitive to her delicate psychological state, he sent her gently whimsical letters.

Rockefeller never developed quite the same fond attachment to Owego as to Moravia, but he retained pleasing associations with it.

He followed events in Tennessee and Kentucky, where guerrilla attacks by Confederate generals Nathan Bedford Forrest and John Hunt Morgan behind Union lines dispelled any lingering notions that widespread Unionist sentiment remained in the South.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

la clave está en el equilibrio entre el porcentaje de desapego y el de sentimiento, en lograr cierta armonía entre el yo que sufre y el yo que controla.

I think,' said Leo [Walton], 'that he [William, 'Tiger'] must have fallen in love with you, he certainly remembered you with the eye of love.' ['Skelmerton']

These were tears of admiration for the strong women so determined to have their family against all odds. And tears of pity for herself, for the trepidation she felt in place of desire and for the pale, wan sentiment that she let pass for love.

My throat clogged up like an old drain with these happy memories.

There is, however, a power that is called memory. It should be dear to all the good ones as well as to all lovers. Yes, it may even be so dear to lovers that they almost prefer this whisper of memory to the sight of each other, as when they say, "Do you remember that time, and do you remember that time?

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.

This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.