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Quotes About Sentiment

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.
~ Graham Greene
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness.
~ Graham Greene
The act of lust and the act of love are the same; it cannot be falsified like a sentiment.
~ Graham Greene
A first reading is something special, like first love.
~ Graham Greene
A comforting sentiment, sir." Alfred took Bruce's empty tea cup from him. "One likes to think that Miss Doyle would agree.
~ Greg Cox
A garage is not always a way station for things destined for the dump, but a living and breathing memory album of moments shared. And promises of more moments to come.
~ Gregg Olsen
I'm a pack rat. There's only a couple pairs of tights I've worn throughout my career that I don't have. I save everything.
~ Jeff Jarrett
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
~ Benjamin Jowett
I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United States was so beautiful. Frank Sinatra, the Pied Pipers, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday. That's when popular music had deeper values, to me. This was music that was selling millions of records.
~ Charlie Haden
I really wanted to write a song like Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight.' It's just such a sweet sentiment. It's so simple but so genuine.
~ Andy Grammer
'Only Fools and Horses' was just one of those shows that could keep on going and going, that excited me. 'Hartbeat with Tony Hart' and 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' were my huge favourites, though. I used to love drawing and always sent work in to the show.
~ Russell Tovey
I couldn't give away my husband's shoes. I could give away other things, but the shoes - I don't know what it was about the shoes, but a lot of people have mentioned to me that shoes took on more meaning than we generally think they do... their attachment to the ground, I don't know - but that did have a real resonance for me.
~ Joan Didion
There are some songs in your playlist which u don't want to listen and don't want to delete either ....same is the case with some relationships...you want to keep them no matter what...even if you know that they are there for namesake...
~ Self
Colectionar, fetisist, nu m-am putut desp?r?i de simboluri, de amintiri, de verigile acestea ale trecutului gelos ag??ate unele de altele de-a lungul unei vie?i întregi.
~ Serge Brussolo
I should like to freeze in time all those I do love...Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!
~ Sharon Kay Penman
You were very loving to me and i only remember the loving parts of you now
~ Sheila Heti
It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.
~ George Santayana
I listen to old songs and remember exactly where I was living and where I recorded it and how I wrote it, the girl I was dating at the time or whatever.
~ Granger Smith
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
~ Jan Karon
Quite like old times,' the room says.
~ Jean Rhys
A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.
~ Jeffrey Jones
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I still have your wrist watch but I couldn't hold the time still.
~ Bhavik Sarkhedi