#sentiment

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

#away #being #between #difference #driver

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. ↗

— David Hume

#advantageous #beauty #case #delicate #every

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#romance #romantic #sentimentality #love

I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine. ↗

— Carol Alt

#feeling #first #i #magazine #sentimental

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#intellectuals #me #sentimental #too

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#place #sadness #sentimentality

There are some things that don't change much. I find the smell of a dish, or the way a certain spice is crushed, or just a quick look at the way something has been put on a plate, can pull me back to another place and time. I love those memories that seem so far away, yet you can hold them and carry them with you, even forget them, and then, with a single taste or hint or a smell, be chaperoned back to a beautiful moment. ↗

— Tessa Kiros

#falling-cloudberries #foodie #sentimental #beauty

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#only #opinions #quebec #sentiments

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#against #hope #hopes #i #last

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

#am #conscious #i #i always #i am