Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Ellen Glasgow

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Krist Novoselic

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Mason Cooley

The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

Mason Cooley

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

Irving Babbitt

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Frederick Wiseman

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

Jack Kevorkian

I am not a sentimental person.

Henry David Thoreau

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.

Grimes

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

Cornelia Funke

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.