#sentiments

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#best #does #generally #him #indignation

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#act #any #comes #deny #easily

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#arts #arts-and-humanities #artsy #creative #creativity

Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to many a myths become reality". ↗

— Amit Abraham

#faith #myths #religious #sentiments #faith

Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#bit #like #little #little bit #our

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. ↗

— James Madison

#confidence #religious #sentiments #surprising #union

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#history #make #men #sentiments #their

Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#cheated #christian #definitely #feel #how

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. ↗

— William James

#advantage #better #character #concrete #entirely

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. ↗

— George Sand

#delights #draws #his #life #line