The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas H. Huxley
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Love, love, love -- all the wretched can't of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
Germaine Greer
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretense but an idea.
Joseph Conrad
I travel light; as light, / That is, as a man can travel who will / Still carry his body around because / Of its sentimental value.
Christopher Fry
This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades.
Richard Eder
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
Mark Van Doren
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
He is very pleasant and congenial, but he's tougher than he appears in public. If he had to move someone aside or get rid of someone, he'd do it, even if there were sentimental obstacles and personal relationships. He tends to do what's best for the corporation.
Matthew Cordaro
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
Otto von Bismarck
Legally, the district can't demand this, though. The request was made more for sentimental than historical reasons. The school has been there for so long that many people would be sad if it disappeared.
Scott Mahoney
We have been at the old one for so long that there is some sentimental feelings for it. But, the new arena has more floor space that will allow us to go from six to eight mats. That should help the event go smoother, which is especially important since we have gone from three classes to four.
Jeremy Jamison
I bought it for sentimental reasons. Me and this truck go way back. I was trained on it.
Jamie Norville
The whole team agrees, the money, we can share that and help each other out, but we can't replace that sentimental value that Becky has lost right now.
Melody Davidson
Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.
Taylor Caldwell
It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
Mary Astor
The audience can expect a very well-crafted and heartfelt retelling of a novel. It's sentimental and moving.
James Tucker
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
Margaret Anderson
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve.
George William Curtis
My favorite part of the conference is going to be the candle-lighting ceremony. It's kind of a sentimental thing - we're closing off the conference with reflection and how you're going to take (the experience) back to your school.
Tiffany Halen
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
Frank Herbert
It was just amazing - people chanting my name, I was kind of like the sentimental favorite, the older guy on the team. I'm glad I did it and hopefully I'll hang around enough to perhaps do it again.
Bernie Williams
Actually, just saying it now, I just realized it's my last regular season race. I guess there wasn't anything going through my mind. I kind of look toward states and the Foot Locker race as being the sentimental ones.
Devin Cornwall
It has such sentimental value. Everyone who had a hand in working on the truck remembered it as a kid.
Steve Phillips
The 'Wizard of Oz' has many layers to it and has sentimental value for many adults.
Irene Gillies
I will be crying because I'm sentimental. But don't tell anyone I said that!
Claudia Alexander
Sometimes people think (that) to see that we are family is to be sentimental. But one has to say: This is one of the most radical things, actually. When we do what we think is charitable, it isn't anything more than our obligation as family members.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.
Richard Foreman
Popcorn [is] the sentimental good-time Charlie of American foods.
Patricia Linden
You get a little too sentimental and you end up crying. Seeing the guys, hearing what they're doing, meeting their wives and family. It was neat. This is really wonderful.
Frank Quilici
I think that all of us have a sentimental attachment to books.
Terry Belanger
It was sentimental and exciting. It was starting to sink in. I wanted to slow things down a bit.
Wade Taylor
If you're a fan and have sentimental interests, chances are you're going to lose.
Pete Weber
I'm feeling sentimental tonight, ... two more weeks.
Harvey Weinstein
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.
Robert Frank
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
Sister Parish
There's a lot of trash, a lot of debris, a lot of sentimental things that mean something to somebody, everywhere.
Dave White
It's been such a long process to get to this point. The feelings are a little mixed. Obviously, we've worked hard to get to this point ... but what gets lost, especially from the employee's standpoint, is there's a history here and a bit of sentimental value. It's a little bit bittersweet.
Claudia Rapkoch
In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.
Pepper Schwartz
It's sort of mixed feelings. It's sentimental and it's also being scared of what could happen.
Mari Pehkonen
The idea wasn't to get Roberto's bike at any price, but I had the idea I was only going to leave it to someone else at a very high price. The most important thing is that we raised money for the hurricane victims and that we're going to keep the bike for sentimental reasons for everyone at the team.
Manolo Saiz
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