Sentiments Quotes - Page 26

• Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You have simply become a victim of faith, Comrade Assistant.

  Milan Kundera

  Attitude, Mean, Rumor

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Believe, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.94, HarperCollins UK

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• The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Class, Ideas, Envy

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.5085, Delphi Classics

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• Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you different; And once they have you, safe and sound, They want to change you all around. Your moods and ways they put a curse on; They'd make of you another person. They cannot let you go your gait; They influence and educate. They'd alter all that they admired. They make me sick, they make me tired.

  Dorothy Parker

  Morning, Stars, Tired

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.

  Os Guinness

  Confused, Thinking, Views

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• If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Mean, Matter

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is essential that Christians understand this. Every Jew, secular, religious, assimilated, left-wing, right-wing, fears being killed because he is Jewish. This is the best-kept secret about Jews, who are widely perceived as inordinately secure and powerful. But it is the only universally held sentiment among Jews.

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Religious, Powerful

  "The Passion: Jews and Christians are watching different films". www.dennisprager.com. October 28, 2003.

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• Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular opinion is what they say to callers from polling organizations.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Confused, Organization, People

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• Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad. A man, he thought, cries not for the future or the past but for the present.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Loss, Animal

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Heart, Mind, Wish

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria”, p.303, Broadview Press

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• The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Relationship, Communication

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• If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.

  Jane Austen

  Gratitude, Attachment, Two

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.371, Waking Lion Press

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• One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Self, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.975, Manonmani Publishers

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• If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.

  Abigail Adams

  Hero, Mean, Vanity

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.153, UPNE

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• It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.

  Barack Obama

  Mistrust, Ifs

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.43, Canongate Books

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• I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true.

  Tom Hanks

  Love Is, Fake, Teach

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• We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria and we elevated what I call the reign of mediocrity. Quite frankly, I think it is about repudiating the past, creating space for new thinking for the best of the new generation, creating both political and geographical space and going at it with single mindedness that says, 'enough of buttering, sentiments and massaging the ego of the old brigade'.

  Wole Soyinka

  Past, Thinking, Space

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The abolitionists helped to create a public discourse in which men like Lincoln become possible. That doesn't mean Lincoln is an abolitionist. It means there is a public opinion out there which is being influenced by antislavery sentiment.

  Eric Foner

  Mean, Men, People

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

  Voltaire

  Women, Sentimental, Reasoning

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• No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Heart, Phrases, Matter

  Alfred de Vigny (1905). “Cinq Mars ...”

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• I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences between the established and outsiders group, which create tension and irritation, is not the form of the face or the skin color but the form of behavior: something learned. The form of behavior and feeling, of sentiment, is different in the immigrant groups from that of the established groups, and that may give rise to an enormous irritation.

  Norbert Elias

  Racism, Giving, Feelings

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

  Norman Mailer

  Emotional, Sentimental, Promiscuity

  Cannibals and Christians (1966) p. 51

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• Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

  James Madison

  Confidence, Religious, Unions

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

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• Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

  David Hume

  Sentimental, Vain, Cases

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, Ends, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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