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Quotes About Sentiment

Do I need fifty finger-painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life? Mementos work best when they're carefully chosen - and when they don't take up much room!
~ Gretchen Rubin
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
~ Leslie Fiedler
She didn't sound overjoyed. She didn't sound even slightly joyed.
~ Sarah Mayberry
What I know intellectually doesn't change how I feel emotionally." She
~ Sarah Morgan
There had been romances in my schooldays--but all my friends had had those; we were forever sending each other Valentines, writing sonnets on the prefect's eyes... This wasn't like that. It was a thing of the heart and the head and the body. A real, true thing, grown-up.
~ Sarah Waters
She said that that was the disadvantage of bringing creatures into the house: one grew used to them, and then, one had the upset of their loss. The
~ Sarah Waters
there's no talking sense to sentiment
~ Scott Lynch
Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
~ Ann Patchett
It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.
~ Taylor Swift
Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
~ Loretta Lynn
Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.
~ Margaret Stohl
But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.
~ Mark Twain
the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.
~ Mark Twain
it warn't no time to be sentimentering.
~ Mark Twain
The 'Memphis Avalanche' reports that the Professor's course met with pretty general approval in the community; knowing that the law was powerless, in the actual condition of public sentiment, to protect him, he protected himself.
~ Mark Twain
Australasian's custom of speaking of England as home. It was always pretty to hear it, and often it was said in an unconsciously caressing way that made it touching; in a way which transmuted a sentiment into an embodiment, and made one seem to see Australasia as a young girl stroking mother England's old gray head.
~ Mark Twain
In verità, non aveva molto senso sospirare perché lei non era ancora nata. Ma noi siamo fatti così, non ragioniamo quando siamo presi da un sentimento: sentiamo e basta.
~ Mark Twain
I thought for a moment about the dog. Miffy. I guess no matter how much Rube and I complained about him, we knew we'd sort of miss him if something happened to him. It's funny how there are things in this world that do nothing but annoy you, but you know you'd miss them when they're gone. Miffy, the Pomeranian wonderdog, was one such thing.
~ Markus Zusak
Singurul lucru mai r?u decât un b?iat care te urâÅŸte.Un b?iat care te iubeÅŸte.
~ Markus Zusak
We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.
~ Marlena De Blasi
her young heart was no longer her own.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle