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Quotes About Sentiment

Reason is a faculty for extracting truth out of materials provided by the sentiment.
~ baring gould sabine viii
It is strange how attached we become to old friends, though they be but inanimate objects.
~ barrie j m ii
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
~ Samuel Adams
You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.
~ Shaun Cassidy
I didn't really like 'You Raise Me Up' at the time we recorded it; now it's my favourite Westlife song.
~ Shane Filan
I've almost never played the 'Smiths' records, once they've gone out. I was always like that and probably always will be.
~ Johnny Marr
People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
~ Irene Rosenfeld
With 'Epicloud,' I wanted something catchy as the flu but with a sentiment that is romantic, positive, and beautiful. Spiritual without religion and set to heavy music.
~ Devin Townsend
I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.
~ Bill Nighy
Memories, priceless. Well not really priceless, but there you go!
~ George Lopez
I am sentimental about my childhood—not my own particular childhood, but the civilization which I grew up in and which is now, I suppose, just about at its last kick.
~ George Orwell
He flattened it out. On it was written, in a large unformed handwriting: I love you.
~ George Orwell
Often a heart capable of loving seeks in vain where to bestow its love, and comes forth pure of all earthly passions, perhaps to find a place in heaven. Ah! when God vouchsafes to us on earth that profound, passionate, ineffable sentiment, we must no longer desire or hope for paradise, Juliette; for paradise is the blending of two hearts in a kiss of love. And when we have found it here on earth, what matters it whether it be in the arms of a saint or of one of the damned?
~ George Sand
Nous croyons que la mission de l'art est une mission de sentiment et d'amour
~ George Sand
Every town is a state of mind, a mood which, after only a short stay, communicates itself, spreads to us in an effluvium which impregnates us, which we absorb with the very air.
~ Georges Rodenbach
And don't you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don't like a person, you don't wish to be obliged to him!
~ Georgette Heyer
steward and his housekeeper, both persons of sentiment, hoped that upon his death-bed he would remember her, and speak of her
~ Georgette Heyer
remember? That's why seeing us reminded her of her playhouse
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Romance is everything.
~ Gertrude Stein
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
~ Leland Stanford
On the upswing of an economic cycle, workers, consumers, savers, investors, and entrepreneurs imagine a future that is brighter than the past. On the downswing, they imagine a future dimmer than the past.
~ Sanjaya Baru
I remember Tim Meadows gave me a radio. It was a radio he didn't want anymore. I gave it to my grandmother, and she had it 'til the day she died. To me, it was, 'I got a thing from Tim Meadows!' I think my grandmother was like, 'I got a thing from my grandson!'
~ Wyatt Cenac
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
~ Leonard Maltin
Seeing a time period captured in film, you know, it does make you feel nostalgic.
~ Henry Thomas