Sentimental Quotes
I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.
From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.
My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.
I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.
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.
I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.
Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.
But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.
I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.
Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.
A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.
Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.
When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
