Sentiments Quotes - Page 24

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern.

Cecilia Bartoli

Thinking, Feelings, Fragility

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A lot of the old-school artists didn’t even respect what’s being called freestyle now... any emcee coming off the top of the head wasn’t really respected. The sentiment was emcees only did that if they couldn’t write. The coming off the top of the head rhymer had a built-in excuse to not be critiqued as hard

Kool Moe Dee

Writing, School, Artist

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Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.

William C. Bryant

Law, Justice, Generosity

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Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

James Hillman

Love, Imagination, Boredom

James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.186, Ballantine Books

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I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

Jim Harrison

Love, Disappointment, Tired

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As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads. They never hear it from anywhere else. Nobody's supposed to think that. ... Since there's no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don't pay any attention to what's going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl.

Noam Chomsky

Crazy, Thinking, Oddities

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The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Insulting, England

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Any democratic sentiment propels my politics.

Cody Wilson

Democratic

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Most media leaders are liberal and much of their programming reflects anti-Christian sentiment.

Tim LaHaye

Christian, Religious, Media

Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1994). “A Nation Without a Conscience”

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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

Marquis de Sade

Vices, Firsts, Cruelty

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We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Jane Addams

Women, Believe, Desire

Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.12, Youcanprint

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Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.

Mason Cooley

Strong, Irony, Enough

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The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent.

Lajos Kossuth

Powerful, Men, Ideas

Lajos Kossuth (1851). “Authentic Life of ... Louis Kossuth ... With a full Report of his Speeches delivered in England ... To which is added his Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.100

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How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!

Arthur Frederick Saunders

Blessed, World, Mystery

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Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Beauty, Flower, Maturity

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In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away the easy supply of daily wants and so proves a rough master that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes

Thucydides

War, Character, Men

Thucydides (1965). “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.161, Hayes Barton Press

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Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.

Judith Ellen Foster

Sweet, Powerful, Home

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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Believe, Mean, Sometimes

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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

Ida Tarbell

Data, Medicine, Figures

Ida Minerva Tarbell (1915). “The Ways of Woman”

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Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

Delphine de Girardin

Love, Men, Ideas

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I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

Grover Cleveland

Indulge In, Liberty, Libertarian

Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.

James Madison

Party, Insecure, Opportunity

James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character, Men, Progress

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.436

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... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Sympathy, Children, Humanity

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.233, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Law, Games, Play

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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