Sentiment Quotes - page 3

It is important to focus more on what we need than on what we want, because much of what we want unnecessarily complicates our lives. The answer is to approach the Divinity in the mood of. "Thy will be done. Use me for Your purposes." Even higher than that sentiment is to request that God remove our free will so that we cannot even exercise it. We are then fully available for the Lord's service. (Bhakti Tirtha Swami)
Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment. View quote
Sandra Fluke
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives. View quote
Stendhal
The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment. View quote
William Dean Howells
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds. View quote
George Mason
You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. (Barack Obama)
Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious love loves man only for God's sake, therefore loves man only apparently, but in truth God only.” Is this different with moral love? Does it love the man, this man for this man's sake, or for morality's sake, for Man's sake, and so-for homo homini Deus-for God's sake? View quote
Max Stirner
If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will. View quote
J. D. Salinger
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. View quote
John Galsworthy
There are two things you need for a jolly good hymn. The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper. The second-and perhaps even more important-is a good tune ... with a simple popular melody. View quote
John Betjeman
Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I'd often disputed. But it turned out that it didn't matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy. View quote
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. View quote
Wilfrid Laurier
Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is ... there is no conclusion yet. View quote
Osamu Tezuka
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. (Alfred Hershey)
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words. View quote
Alfred Hershey
There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel. View quote
Adam Hasner
I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment. View quote
Doris Kearns Goodwin
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment. View quote
Eddie Albert