Sentiments Quotes - Page 38

• HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Heart, Action, Emotion

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.116, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.

  Lynn Freed

  Feet, Imagination, Hot

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• When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.

  Hans Hinrich Wendt

  Heart, Soul, Utterance

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• I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation which is going forward in Palestine under Jewish auspices, and to add my expression to the sentiment among our people in favor of the realization of the age-old aspirations of the Jewish people for the restoration of their national homeland.

  Herbert Hoover

  Appreciation, Men, Expression

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Ethics should precede economics. But it doesn't have to. . . . We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: the pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; and the sale of dangerous products - from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of ever-greater profits.

  Arianna Huffington

  Air, Water, Car

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• Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Reality, Support, Half

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• Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Time, Health

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.

  James Madison

  Party, Men, Rights

  The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

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• I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden.

  Tommy Davidson

  Relief, Capture, Bin Laden

  "Comedy Post-Bin Laden" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 16, 2011.

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• My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Liberty, Causes, Opinion

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• Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

  Criss Jami

  Tolerance, Negative, Opinion

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.29, Criss Jami

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