sentiment

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
a8f9337	If it's going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it's not a world that I want to live in.	inspirational sentiment humanity-and-society	Christopher Isherwood
f35c66d	The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.	apathy auschewitz evil genocide good hitler hollow holocaust indifference rwanda sentiment south-sudan sudan talk tolerance west	Philip Gourevitch
cdc1eb6	What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.	desire lady-chatterley-s-lover poets sentiment sex	D.H. Lawrence
5420b45	For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.	desire emotion neutrality sentiment sex	Ian Fleming
8146870	"Has it ever happened to you," Leon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, some dim image that comes to you from afar, and as the completest expression of your own slightest sentiment?"	ideas sentiment	Gustave Flaubert
5af3f20	"Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart," he said." --	mockery sentiment	Orson Scott Card
c466cd7	From early childhood his mother had taught him that to discuss in public a profound emotional experience-which, in the open air, immediately evanesces and fades, and, oddly, becomes similar to an analogous experience of one's interlocutor-was not only vulgar, but also a sin against sentiment.	sentiment	Vladimir Nabokov
ba7e599	Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical.	cynicism enthusiasm personality sentiment	H.G. Wells
87b6ba8	She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her practicality into her practice. In modern Imperial wars, the case is reversed. Our dreams, our aims are always, we insist, quite practical. It is our practice that is dreamy.	dream joan-of-arc practical sentiment	G.K. Chesterton
88b9a7d	- A sentyment staje sie uciazliwy. W koncu jest cos nazbyt fizycznego w probie zachowania czastki dziecinstwa na swoim mostku. - Nie pan pierwszy sprowadza wiare do zmyslu dotyku.	sentiment	Vladimir Nabokov
fbd009e	We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's a chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.	god sentiment serendipity	Colum McCann
e6cd549	Lucrezia Borgia couldn't be moved by the sentiment, nor could she forgive the insult. Old woman. Old.	sentiment	Gregory Maguire

If it's going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it's not a world that I want to live in.

inspirational sentiment humanity-and-society

Christopher Isherwood

f35c66d

The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

apathy auschewitz evil genocide good hitler hollow holocaust indifference rwanda sentiment south-sudan sudan talk tolerance west

Philip Gourevitch

cdc1eb6

What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.

desire lady-chatterley-s-lover poets sentiment sex

D.H. Lawrence

5420b45

For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.

desire emotion neutrality sentiment sex

Ian Fleming

8146870

"Has it ever happened to you," Leon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, some dim image that comes to you from afar, and as the completest expression of your own slightest sentiment?"

ideas sentiment

Gustave Flaubert

5af3f20

"Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart," he said." --

mockery sentiment

Orson Scott Card

c466cd7

From early childhood his mother had taught him that to discuss in public a profound emotional experience-which, in the open air, immediately evanesces and fades, and, oddly, becomes similar to an analogous experience of one's interlocutor-was not only vulgar, but also a sin against sentiment.

sentiment

Vladimir Nabokov

ba7e599

Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical.

cynicism enthusiasm personality sentiment

H.G. Wells

87b6ba8

She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her practicality into her practice. In modern Imperial wars, the case is reversed. Our dreams, our aims are always, we insist, quite practical. It is our practice that is dreamy.

dream joan-of-arc practical sentiment

G.K. Chesterton

88b9a7d

- A sentyment staje sie uciazliwy. W koncu jest cos nazbyt fizycznego w probie zachowania czastki dziecinstwa na swoim mostku. - Nie pan pierwszy sprowadza wiare do zmyslu dotyku.

sentiment

Vladimir Nabokov

fbd009e

We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's a chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.

god sentiment serendipity

Colum McCann

e6cd549

Lucrezia Borgia couldn't be moved by the sentiment, nor could she forgive the insult. Old woman. Old.

sentiment

Gregory Maguire