I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.
John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.
If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.
The revolution is now just a sentiment.
But the love of offspring. . . tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.
Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without sentiment.
The sentiment that I had a little trouble with was the idea that, "You change the school, you change the community. " I couldn't wrap my mind around that.
One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.
Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.
Sentimentalists. . . adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel. . . . Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.
As a human sentiment, it's touching to behold.
No other sentiment draws people to Jerusalem than the desire to see and touch the places where Christ was physically present, and to be able to say from their very own experience: 'We have gone into his tabernacle, and have worshipped in the places where his feet have stood. '
It is essential that Christians understand this: Every Jew - secular, religious, assimilated, left-wing, right-wing - fears being killed because he is Jewish. This is the best-kept secret about Jews, who are widely perceived as inordinately secure and powerful. But it is the only universally held sentiment among Jews.
All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.