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• We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion.

  John Yau

  Way, Emotion, Language

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• A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

  Keira Knightley

  Opposites, Trying, Cinema

  Allure magazine, October 2007.

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• But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

  Camille Pissarro

  Art, Orange, Pale

  1883 Letter to his son Lucien.

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• What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

  Jean Gebser

  Condescension And, Facts, Harmony

  Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”

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• Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Action, Devotion, Bhakti

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• American media seem to color events by refracting them through a sickeningly sentimental prism. Their efforts to create reality on the ground — instead of reporting on it — notwithstanding, here's what we know about the inchoate Egyptian uprising: the movement's members hated their ruler and did what was necessary to be rid of him.

  Ilana Mercer

  Reality, Media, Color

  "Media's sickening sentimentality on Egypt". www.wnd.com. February 17, 2011.

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• I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Peace, War, Widows

  "Fictional character: Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. "Charlie" Madison". "The Americanization of Emily", 1964.

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• Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve
  purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Opposites, Justice

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• I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!

  Frank O'Hara

  Beautiful, Ideas, Wish

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• While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

  Timothy Keller

  Blood, Sweat, Joy

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.14, Penguin

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• There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

  William Ernest Henley

  Character, Men, Two

  William Ernest Henley (1906). “Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation: Literature”

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• Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

  Cyril Connolly

  Education, Disappointment, School

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• I'm not a sentimental guy.

  Gene Hackman

  Guy

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• Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?

  Robert Muller

  Happiness, Spiritual, Riches

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• Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God, I don't believe in the supernatural, I don't believe in anything! And I'm terribly cynical, and somehow or other, all three of my films and much of my television work has been rather sentimental, and 'heartwarming'.

  Nigel Cole

  Believe, Cynical, Television

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• Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Cynical, Waiting, Flying

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• 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.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Guy, Band, Instruments

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• When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Hatred, Temptation

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• The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

  Andre Malraux

  Dream, Ideas, Giving

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• Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

  Robert Genn

  Titles, Add, Lasts

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• All things do go a-courting,
  In earth, or sea, or air,
  God hath made nothing single
  But thee in His world so fair.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Air, Sea

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.695, Harvard University Press

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• The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.

  Walt Disney

  Attachment, Should Have, World

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• If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Vanity, Ugly

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

  Alberto Manguel

  Suicide, Reading, Reader

  Alberto Manguel (2010). “A Reader on Reading”, p.153, Yale University Press

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• I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

  William Saroyan

  Writing, Thinking, Humans

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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