People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say that such characters shouldn't be funny part of the time, or that their actions shouldn't evoke genuine feeling.
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.
From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.
Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.
The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
Love and truth are two tools you can use to examine how reasonable or unreasonable your sentiments are
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
Anything you like; anything I like... No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us
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.
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.
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their co...
In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures are obviously suffused and inspired by a romantic senti...
She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intelligence is full of excesses. Rigorous intelligene abhors sentimentality, and women must be sentimental to value the dreadful silliness of the men aroun...
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.
I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!
