Quotes About Sentiment

That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Of all machines, the human heart is the most complicated and inexplicable.

Indeed, too often the weakest thing about our faith is the illusion that our faith is strong, when the "strength" we feel is only the intensity of emotion or of sentiment, which have nothing to do with real faith.

Next worst thing to unrequited Love, isn't it? Insufficient hate.

As ever, he is surpriz'd by the fierceness of their bodies, their inability to hold back, the purity of the not-yet-dishonest,— 'twould take a harder Case than Mason not to struggle with Tears of Sentiment.

Dad's Buick—what a great car it had been all these years—

You can always come back to a place, even if it isn't there anymore.

The crickets were rubbing their hind legs together, unrolling that endless band of sound that when combined with the sound of the sycamore trees losing their heads in the heat-thickened breeze could cause even a girl as unsentimental as Mary to feel like she'd just left something behind on the porch stoop she couldn't bear to live without.

There's nothing like the feel of an old book in your hands.

When a book ends, the good parts get folded up and carried around in somebody's pocket. The rest gets sold at a garage sale for a nickel.

You are still in love with her. No. But I think I'm in love a little with the memory of her.

But don't you find that certain songs remind you of certain things in your life? That when you hear a specific song it takes you back to when you were listening to it?

Vincent had a cupboard where he kept books he'd been gifted that he never intended to read but couldn't bring himself to throw out. You couldn't throw books out – that was the rule.

Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me.

And was al his chiere, as in his herte.

They really do occupy a scrumptious little dark corner of my heart!

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

There is evidently a set song and sentiment for every dance, for the songs are perfectly measured, and sung in exact time with the beat of the drum; and always with an uniform and invariable set of sounds and expressions, which clearly indicate certain sentiments, which are expressed by the voice, though sometimes not given in any known language whatever.

...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

People always long for the good old days," Christopher said, his light eyes thoughtful. "We look at the past with rose-colored glasses.

No matter how hard they tried, they could never take all their memories with them: the best memories would remain here, between these thin walls.