Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

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.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

It's a shame. We had just sent all our payments in.

It's very complicated what we're doing. We're just making sure what we sent out was accurate.

It?s time to say we sent this on.

They are overestimating the anti-gay sentiment in their own organization and the country.

T here were about 7,000 sent to the Shreveport area.

Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Winston Churchill

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Robert Johnson

I sent somebody to take it down, which I think is the wrong thing to do. But I have to do it,

I sent out 502 e-mails and got one response.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jose Rizal

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

William Shakespeare

Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.

There is no sentiment in the administration for humoring the Chinese,

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Douglas Hofstadter

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Amy Hempel

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

Alfred Hershey

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Ann Patchett

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

Thomas Carlyle

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Roland Barthes

It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.

Thomas Pynchon

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

Thomas Kinkade

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

Victor Pinchuk

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

Victor Hugo

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

Stanley Fish

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

Stanley Fish

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

Stanley Hauerwas

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.