Sentiments Quotes - Page 38

• The union of a want and a sentiment.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Poetry, Unions

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• In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Gratitude, Sweet, Heart

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• My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Liberty, Causes, Opinion

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• I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden.

  Tommy Davidson

  Relief, Capture, Bin Laden

  "Comedy Post-Bin Laden" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 16, 2011.

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• Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Jobs, Writing

  "Autobiographical Notes". The New Yorker, September 11, 1970.

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• That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Flirting, House

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Ethics should precede economics. But it doesn't have to. . . . We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: the pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; and the sale of dangerous products - from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of ever-greater profits.

  Arianna Huffington

  Air, Water, Car

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• Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Reality, Support, Half

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• Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

  Criss Jami

  Tolerance, Negative, Opinion

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.29, Criss Jami

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• Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Time, Health

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation which is going forward in Palestine under Jewish auspices, and to add my expression to the sentiment among our people in favor of the realization of the age-old aspirations of the Jewish people for the restoration of their national homeland.

  Herbert Hoover

  Appreciation, Men, Expression

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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