Sentiment Quotes

When you get caught up on other peoples' problems, solve them with caution so you don't suffer the excessive burdens of regrets.

~ Darmie O-Lujon

A critic can call any poem 'doggerel.' That is no more than a slur. 'Doggerel' or 'maudlin' or 'sappy' or 'sentimental' is in the ear of the listener. By the by, 'sentimental' is okay as it is defined as 'marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism.' It is 'sentimentality' that is to be avoided, like the fiddleback spider, being as it is 'the quality or state of being sentimental to excess or in affectation.' Again we are faced with a judgement call and must keep a sharp eye on our outpourings to insure they are not overly gooey.The intellectual elite probably believe that most of the lyrics songwriters create are 'doggerel' of one kind or another--that is to say 'trivial......the young songwriter has now been warned about the implacable nature of the enemy. Under a rather large umbrella, preferred twentieth-century taste in art of all kinds has been characterized by a kind of detachment, or sangfroid. It is simply not chic to be carried away in one's emotional reaction to a subject. All serious communication or complaint must be carefully wrapped in a protective coating of irony and/or satire.

~ Jimmy Webb

It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time. Not as though we hate them, but we hate how they don't love us.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

An oversupply of national sentiment is not the problem in Somalia. The problem is a lack of it. The problem is an oversupply of sub-sub-clannish attitude.

~ Meles Zenawi

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

~ Pierre De Coubertin

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

~ Voltaire

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

~ Marco Rubio