Sentimental Quotes - Page 11

• Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Emotional, Worry

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• Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.

  Boots Riley

  Father, Thinking, Ideas

  "Boots Riley Is Sorry to Bother You". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 3, 2011.

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• The soul's a sort of sentimental wife,
  That prays and whimpers of the higher life.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Wife, Soul, Praying

  Richard Le Gallienne (1966). “Richard Le Gallienne: a centenary memoir-anthology”

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• I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

  Maya Angelou

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Thinking

  Dr. Maya Angelou (2009). “The Heart of a Woman”, p.55, Random House

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• I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Thinking, Names

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. June 2010.

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

  Frederick Wiseman

  Busy, Reason, Nostalgic

  "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

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• In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from.

  Homaro Cantu

  Country, Ice Cream, Meals

  "How Street Food Become Haute Cuisine" by Homaro Cantu, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2013.

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• I'm very sentimental and ambitious. I like to be relaxed and I like to live a peaceful existence, but that's very difficult considering I'm very neurotic. On the inside, I'm very chilled - but on the outside I'm a big mess of worry!

  Monique Coleman

  Worry, Peaceful, Ambitious

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

  Helen Lynd

  Expression, Desire, Life Is

  Helen Merrell Lynd (2013). “On Shame And The Search For Identity”, p.203, Routledge

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• Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.

  Mike Huckabee

  Love, Selfish, Mean

  "Clinton puts squeeze on Dems campaign cash", www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2015.

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• Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Fall, Writing, Wise Words

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

  John Hodgman

  Smart, Dust, Criticism

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation
  as immigration law.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Race, Law, People

  "Whose Country Is This?", Good Housekeeping Magazine, February, 1921.

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• The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ideas, Looks, Earth

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.7, Penguin

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• I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and
  without illusion.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Men, Choices

  Erich Fromm (1997). “On Being Human”, p.103, A&C Black

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• What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

  Paul McCartney

  Mean, Stuff

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• It is perverse that a nation so rich should neglect its children so shamefully. Our attitude toward them is cruelly ambivalent. Weare sentimental about children but in our actions do not value them. We say we love them but give them little honor.

  Richard Stolley

  Attitude, Children, Giving

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• The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Religious, Writing, Men

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• I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded.

  Jack Paar

  Lonely, Personality, Loyal

  JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”

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• Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Love, Pain, Deny

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• Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.

  James Marcus

  Mother, Memories, Voice

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• What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in the festival, but Rust and Bone has to be a real contender for prizes, and, the odds will be shortening to vanishing point for Cotillard getting the best actress award.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Real, Awards, Odds

  "Cannes 2012: Rust and Bone – review". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• The love of God is no mere sentimental feeling; it is redemptive power!

  Charles Clayton Morrison

  Feelings, God Love, Mere

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• Films, like memories, seem to re-shoot themselves over the years, reflecting our latest needs and obsessions. In many cases they can change completely, and reveal unexpected depths and shallows. Will Four Weddings and a Funeral be seen one day as a vicious social satire? Could Jaws become as tearful and sentimental as Bambi?

  J. G. Ballard

  Memories, Years, Funeral

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