I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
My mood, as I identify with each of my heroes, resembles what I used to feel when I played alone as a child. Like all children, I liked to play make-believe, to put myself in someone else's place and imagine dream worlds in which I was a soldier, a f...
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn relig...
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
I am not a sentimental person.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
My books are all fantastically sentimental.
One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.
I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
You are my perfect sentiment.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person.
To use the term 'clerk' as an insult is simply a banal vulgarity; Pessoa and Svevo, however would have welcomed it as a just attribute of the poet. The latter does not resemble Achilles or Diomedes, ranting on their war-chariots, but is more like Uly...
According to Benedict's scheme, the community reads through... the entire book of Psalms every week. The monks are therefore exposed... to all the despairing, doubtful, bitter, vindictive, jingoistic, nationalistic, and seemingly racist passages in t...
People are in one of two states in a relationship,” Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It’s like a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they’ll say...
How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your credulity caused me! A thousand times I was on the point of breaking out publicly and opening your eyes, but a fear stronger than myself held me ...
