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

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom and to commit my cause to God not fearing to offend men who take offence at the simplicity of truth is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody before it was actually verified.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

It's a very romantic sentiment but to think that you would die if you didn't write well I would definitely choose to not write and live.

When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.

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.

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

It's not surprising then they get bitter they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

The President in talking about freedom and democracy is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.

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