Sentimental Quotes - Page 20

• Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Eye, Men, Race

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.

  Alan Moore

  Memories, Dark, Childhood

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Graphic novel by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book.

  Ron Rash

  Moving, Book, Heart

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• "Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

  Brigid Brophy

  Compassion, People, Abuse

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• Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus.

  Richard Rohr

  Baby, Jesus, Waiting

  "Preparing for Christmas" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral; in the evening I become so sentimental that I would fain drink up the Milky Way without reflecting how indigestible I should find the little fixed stars, and by night there is the Devil himself broke loose in my head and no mistake.

  Heinrich Heine

  Stars, Mistake, Night

  Heinrich Heine (1882). “Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel”

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• How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

  Walter Gropius

  Long, Fearless, Culture

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• I always loved horror as a kid. On the one hand, I really love monsters, because in a way I feel like I related to their outsider status and like the sentimental romantic plight of the monster. More importantly though I feel like people are completely motivated by fear, especially with our political system here in America which is just degenerating into more and more fear mongering and it gets in the way of real discourse, plus it's just something I'm obsessive about and have always been a little bit of a paranoid guy.

  Larry Fessenden

  Real, Kids, Hands

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• I'm just happy when directors make a movie that is really sentimental but without being maudlin or saccharine or too much like Chewels gum. I don't want to be involved in a movie that's too much like a piece of Chewels.

  Paul Schneider

  Directors, Pieces, Gum

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• If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's childbirth, and there's dances. And likewise in Shakespeare and even Cervantes, there's a lot of celebrations of the positive manifestations of life. Technically, I found it harder to do, so that's kind of a good late-life challenge - without getting sentimental or chirpy.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Challenges, Celebration

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm sentimental about Jesus on the cross. Jesus was a Jew, and also I believe he was a catalyst, and I think he offended people because his message was to love your neighbour as yourself; in other words, no one is better than somebody else. He embraced all people, whether it was a beggar on the street or a prostitute, and he admonished a group of Jews who were not observing the precepts of the Torah. So he rattled a lot of people's cages.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jesus, Believe, Love You

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Attitude, Military, War

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• If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.

  Alice Cooper

  Song, Four, Hours

  "Alice Cooper: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 02, 2009.

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• Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?

  Rob Brezsny

  Bored, Shrines, Worship

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• One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what seems to be kind of happening is that you come in thinking you're going to see a cool robot boxing movie, you don't expect this emotional underdog, father/son movie. And it's not one that's soft and overly sentimental, but hopefully it's one that's poignant.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Father, Son, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Years, Parent, Together

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• I've never been sentimental about my horse. The horse doesn't give a damn about you. If you want to know the truth - horses are dumb.

  Tim McCoy

  Horse, Giving, Dumb

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.

  Anthony Edwards

  Real, Thinking, People

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• The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

  H. G. Wells

  Order, People, Singing

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• Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Age, Use

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Self, Laughing, Feelings

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• These words "accessible" and "emotionally available" get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers - or the reverse - if it's not all goo-ey and sentimental we're told it's "cold" or "uncaring" or "emotionally vacant." In other words, responses to women's writing in particular continue to be "gendered."

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Writing, Editors, Agents

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Literature is an aspect of story and story is all that exists to make sense of reality. War is a story. Now you begin to see how powerful story is because it informs our worldview and our every action, our every justification is a story. So how can story not be truly transformative? I've seen it happen in real ways, not in sentimental ways or in the jargon of New Age liberal ideology.

  Chris Abani

  Powerful, Real, War

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chris Abani". Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• Love is at once the most creative and yet simultaneously destructive force in the world, and thus, in our lives. And I don't mean the Hallmark sentimental type of love, although that is part of it. But a deeper obligation that we have to each other: the obligation to reflect our humanness at each other, to reflect back the things others show us and we, them.

  Chris Abani

  Mean, Love Is, Creative

  RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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