Pastoral Resources

What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.