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Quotes About Sentiment

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
~ David Hume
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
~ Benjamin Graham
I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
~ Victor Pinchuk
Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
~ Robert Plant
I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Heart" here refers especially to deep feeling or emotion. "Heart" means not only (1) intuitive reason ("the heart has its reasons") and (2) will
~ Peter Kreeft
Those old songs certainly brought back memories. Why did the past always seem so much brighter than the present? Because he had been more innocent then?
~ Peter Robinson
Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.
~ David Levithan
All couples get nostalgic about the start of their story.
~ David Levithan
and all I could think was that I should have been the one with the camera, because the two of you were such a funny picture. Instead, we have this blurry, happy shot, which must mean something to you if you carry it around like this, folded to fit.
~ David Levithan
That's okay, you told me. I like them better when they're dried up. I'll keep them for years. Until our Get Rid of the Roses anniversary.
~ David Levithan
Defunct, adj. You brought home a typewriter for me.
~ David Levithan
I can't be alone in this, can I? And, of course, you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Therefore you keep the crocheted owl given to you by your second-youngest sister and accidentally on purpose drop the mug that reads "Owl Love You Always" and was sent by someone who clearly never knew you to begin with.
~ David Sedaris
He argued that the general had been sacrificed to appease the proslavery sentiment of the border states and because of Lincoln's constitutional conservatism.
~ David W. Blight
Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment. Perhaps such decisions are paving stones on the road to Hell; if so, my route is well paved, and the welcoming committee all ready knows my name.
~ Dean Koontz
Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment.
~ Dean Koontz
Nostalgia is a luxury.
~ Zadie Smith
He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
~ Zadie Smith
Dad, I don't know women very well, but I reckon they live by their hearts. You
~ Zane Grey
Almost every story has a romantic angle to it.
~ Fawad Khan
But stay, you shall not come from Havre to Paris to see Canalis without carrying something back with you. Warrior!" (Canalis had the form and action of an Homeric hero) "learn this from the poet: Every noble sentiment in man is a poem so exclusively individual that his nearest friend, his other self, cares nothing for it. It is a treasure which is his alone, it is —
~ Honore de Balzac
The physician strains towards good as an artist towards beauty, each impelled by that grand sentiment which we call virtue.
~ Honore de Balzac
Ale rozum jest zawsze czym? mizernym wobec uczucia; jest ograniczony jak wszystko, co pozytywne; uczucie jest bez kresu. Rozumowa? tam, gdzie trzeba uczu?, to w?a?ciwo?? ma?ych dusz. Vandenesse
~ Honore de Balzac
Hatred requires too many forces fully armed. None but public bodies can keep alive the sentiment.
~ Honore de Balzac