Sentimental Quotes - Page 15

• Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspiration, Mean, People

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Believe, Heart

  "To Have and Have Not". Book by Ernest Hemingway. Chapter 21, 1937.

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• Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

  Judith Ellen Foster

  Party, Action, Creation

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• I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here to set me right. The truth is that you did not believe in idealism. All love was suspect; even a saint's was just differed self-interest. And it was impossible to argue without sounding either sentimental or naive. Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary. And you studied early to disguise your childhood pain. But it is not universal.

  Michael Arditti

  Pain, Smart, Believe

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• I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hogwash, Nonsense, Fame

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• I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

  Salma Hayek

  Birthday, Believe, Age

  "Salma Hayek Pinault Opens Up About Marriage and Motherhood". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. October 18, 2011.

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• When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart . . . should automatically be heaped with scorn. I think it is symptomatic of a sad and dangerous impoverishment of spirit.

  Bill Richardson

  Heart, Thinking, Brain

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• There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

  Peter Greenaway

  Opportunity, Emotional, Expectations

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• I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Trying, Collecting

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Missing, Miss Me

  "Read Christopher Nolan's Farewell Letter to the Batman Franchise" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Long, Evil

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798) #31)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it... live it...and never give it back. Stop sweating the small stuff. Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what. Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who do love us.

  Erma Bombeck

  Life, Giving, Worry

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• Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

  James Joyce

  Emotion, Sentimentality

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• Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

  William Ralph Inge

  Disillusioned, Prove

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• The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Cake, Ideas

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• I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

  Anthony Trollope

  Love Is, Men, Two

  Anthony Trollope (1867). “Tales of All Countries”, p.86

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• Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

  Larry Harvey

  Real, Struggle, Community

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• There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart, that is hurrying to get rid of that hard feeling when you see other peoples' sufferings; this is not a compassion, but just an instinct will to defence yourself from misfortunes of others. But there is another compassion - real one, that demands for actions, not sentiments, it knows what it wants, and it is full of determination to do everything, what is in human power and even beyond it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Dream, Determination

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• In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Ideas, Issues

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.

  Georgina Chapman

  Mom, Grandmother, Years

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• "When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality."

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Love Life, Reality

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

  Sherman Alexie

  War, Soldier, Irony

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.304, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.

  Margot Kidder

  Drama, Evil, Greek

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

  Holly Near

  People, Hogwash, Feeding

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• I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

  Mark Twain

  Land, Names, California

  Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1961). “Life as I find it [by] Mark Twain [pseud.] Essays, sketches, tales, and other material, the majority of which is now published in book form for the first time: edited, with an introd. and notes”

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