Quotes About Sentiment

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their empire, and secure command to that sex which ought to obey.

I believed in childhood by authority, in youth by sentiment, in my mature years by reason; now I believe because I have always believed.

There is, I feel, an age at which the individual man would want to stop: you will seek the age at which you would desire your Species had stopped. Discontented with your present state for reasons that foretell even greater discontents for your unhappy Posterity, perhaps you would want to be able to go backward in time. This sentiment must be the Eulogy of your first ancestors, the criticism of your contemporaries, and the dread of those who will have the unhappiness to live after you.

The first is that the individual forming part of a crowd acquires, solely from numerical considerations, a sentiment of invincible power which allows him to yield to instincts which, had he been alone, he would perforce have kept under restraint. He will be the less disposed to check himself from the consideration that, a crowd being anonymous, and in consequence irresponsible, the sentiment of responsibility which always controls individuals disappears entirely.

Si c'est la raison qui fait l'homme, c'est le sentiment qui le conduit.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten," Dad said, "you'll still have your stars.

Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment.

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

I'm very much a nostalgic optimist.

The original 'Tum Bin' was one of my favourite films whether you talk about the film or the music.

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.

I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning.

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It's just like I remember," she said, smiling. "Only crappier," said Mallory.

This is a matter of feeling,' said Misabel. 'And such things can never be explained.

I miss those days, don't you? I mean, except for the terrible parts.

The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn't speak language that's acceptable to people, it relegates itself to obscurity.

Becky had sent her as souvenirs of her

For me, at least, feeling something, even something bad, is better than feeling nothing.