#sentiment

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#fact #full #little #mere #morals

I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#coffee #dumped #feeling #gently #given

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? ↗

— James Thomson

#beauty #elevating #enthusiasm #i #know

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#good #makes #novels #sentiments

I am not a sentimental person. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#i #i am #person #sentimental

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#after #calls #conscience #follows #his

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#being #ceremonial #earlier #gay #gay marriage

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#i think #mean #pretty #sentimental #think

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#film #films #i #i think #least

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#boy #detested #how #i #i remember