Quotes about Sentimental

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about

He is, and is pleased to let everybody know it, a winner-take-all businessman—the worst nightmare of sentimental, lefty intellectuals, which is exactly what so many of the Bancrofts have become.

The reason many of us leave off praying and become hard towards God is because we have only a sentimental interest in prayer.

I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

It's all very true! It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it.

I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.

Oh, boys, don't be sentimental; it's bad for the digestion!

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.

Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.

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.