I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia. ) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired from their infancy the habit of discussing, of deliberating, and of judging of public affairs, it was in these assemblies of towns or districts that the sentiments of the people were formed in the first place, and their resolutions were taken from the beginning to the end of the disputes and the war with Great Britain.
Dawn Of The Dead is about how we're just a country cannibalizing itself, turning into one shopping mall, and everyone at the mall is just brain-dead, wandering around. Capitalism gone awry, and the worst parts of human nature coming out. All these different things that people read into the films that are all there, very strong anti-Bush sentiments that went into making those films. It's great. I like it when people get it the second or third time, when someone else points it out to them. They don't realize it's been there all along. Those are my favorite movies.
All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
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.
Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong. "
Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.
The sentiment of fear is nearly allied to that of hatred.
The member of a culture. . . purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. . . . He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment.
HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.
