Sentimental Quotes - Page 5

I'm not a sentimental guy.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.

A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.

[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.

I have complicated feelings about nostalgia. I think that sometimes it can be dangerous. It can airbrush the truth, or fictionalize the truth, which leads to the worst kind of sentimentality. But I'm also a sentimental person who feels quite a bit of nostalgia.

I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

The Russians are a very sentimental people.

Unlike men, women got less sentimental as we aged, I was discovering.

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

I'm not terribly sentimental.