Quotes About Sentiment

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.

She did love him. She always had, even when she had hated him most.

And she was beginning to like him, despite everything. Perhaps she was beginning to feel a little more than liking.

I am exceedingly fond of her, he said. Which is not a particularly ardent thing to say, Viscount Luttrell pointed out.

But good-byes are hard to say . . . when a friendship is a very close one.

I bent down the page, whose small triangle still marks the instant. Touching that triangle of yellowed paper today is like sliding my hand into the glove of my seventeen-year-old hand. Through magic, there are the Iowa fields slipping by with all the wholesome prosperity they represent. And there is my mother, not yet born into the ziplock baggie of ash my sister sent me years ago with the frank message Mom ½, written in laundry pen, since no one in our family ever stood on ceremony.

Richard, marked for misery and defeat, acknowledged that power which sentiment possesses to exalt us—to convince us that our minds, endowed with a soaring, restless aspiration, can find no repose on earth except in love.

I love you very tenderly. Remember me with affection, should you never hear from me again.

and once his words had even power over my heart;

the dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment.

Issues, action, power, self-interest. I liked these concepts. They bespoke a certain hardheadedness, a worldly lack of sentiment; politics, not religion.

He feared that rising anti-Muslim sentiment had strengthened the influence of India's main opposition party, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Maybe it wasn't about needing them. People hold on to all kinds of things, silly things, even broken things, because of the memories attached to them.

if she really wanted to read an article about sailboat building she'd written twenty years ago, which she definitely did not. But giving up the physical record of all that work felt like a kind of death. Online wasn't enough. She wanted it to weigh something.

I sighed. Two goodbyes in one night. It was depressing. And it wasn't as though I had a whole Rolodex full of friends. But no sense being sentimental about it. Sentiment is stupid.

At the height of maturity, there is no difference between knowledge and sentiment.

but we just can't seem to rekindle the feeling we used to have.

Franklin Pierce Adams pointed out, "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

As the columnist Franklin Pierce Adams pointed out, "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.