Sentimental Quotes - Page 16

• Let's name the sentimental hog Arnold

  Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers

  Names, Hog

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• Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Reality, Color, Political

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered behaviour from the public.

  Steve Fowler

  Drug, Mind, Hogwash

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• I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!

  Anne Frank

  Silly, Helping, Desperate

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.108, GENERAL PRESS

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• Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer." “If you don’t believe in Easter,” Owen Meany said. “Don’t kid yourself—Don’t call yourself a Christian.

  John Irving

  Christian, Easter, Believe

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.294, Random House

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

  Richelle Mead

  Said, Please

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• Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Birthday, Childhood

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• Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Doe, Coffins, Want

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• When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone’s way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Blow, Land

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.77, Canongate Books

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• I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.

  Agatha Christie

  Girl, Sex, Sorry

  "Postmark: Murder".

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• I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

  Gus Van Sant

  Thinking, Quality, Film

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2011.

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• She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.

  David Nicholls

  Flirting, Light, Sun

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.85, Hachette UK

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  You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Birthday, Sports, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

  Billy Corgan

  People, Remember, Notion

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• Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

  Lucy Larcom

  Inspirational, Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday

  LUCY LARCOM (1869). “POEMS”, p.179

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• With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.

  David Levithan

  Hurt, Thinking, Track

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.18, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then I doubt there is anything I can do for you. You, sir, are a romantic, and I suspect your condition is incurable.

  Frances Hardinge

  Attachment, Doubt, Week

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• All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

  Margaret Atwood

  Wolf Packs, Stories, Drivel

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human

  Emilie Autumn

  Pages, Forget, Charming

  Song: The Music I Heard Once

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• He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

  Edith Wharton

  Girl, Adventure, Men

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.144, VM eBooks

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• I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

  Victoria Beckham

  Birthday, Children, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

  David Nicholls

  Moving, People, Use

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

  Brandon Boyd

  Birthday, Important, Age

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• We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

  George Whyte-Melville

  Love, Breakup, Believe

  George John Whyte-Melville (1875). “Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor”, p.154

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• To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

  Roddy Doyle

  Oxygen, Important, Would Be

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