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Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
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A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.
L. Frank Baum
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It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
Mary Astor
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The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.
Henry Van Dyke
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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire
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We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
R. D. Laing
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
Martin Luther
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Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
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To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
William Sloane Coffin
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau
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There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
Jon Bon Jovi
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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
William Godwin
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John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
Maureen O'Hara
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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Norman Mailer
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
William Ralph Inge
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Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.
Nick Hornby
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If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
Ugo Betti
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Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.
Jack Butler Yeats
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I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
Anthony Hopkins
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No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.
Jean Rhys
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If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's childbirth, and there's dances. And likewise in Shakespeare and even Cervantes, there's a lot of celebrations of the positive manifestations of life. Technically, I found it harder to do, so that's kind of a good late-life challenge - without getting sentimental or chirpy.
George Saunders
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The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer
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What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
Jean Gebser
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.
Paul Simon
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Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.
Wayne Pacelle
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I'm all sentimental. I've probably been ruined by romantic movies, but I really do believe in love. I've experienced it, I've had it, so I know it's real.
Sarah Silverman
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If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
James Taylor
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Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.
Colum McCann
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Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
Krist Novoselic
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A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.
Bill Brandt
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment;
the one being essentially restricted,
like everything that is positive,
while the other is infinite.
Honore de Balzac
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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
David Hume
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I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.
Gus Van Sant
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But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.
Camille Pissarro
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Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Graham Greene
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I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.
Louis Garrel
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I get sentimental over the music of the ā90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as Iām concerned the ā90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.
Rob Sheffield
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I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
Patrick Stewart
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I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.
Christopher Nolan
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You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
Holly Near
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The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.
Joseph Conrad
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
Roland Barthes
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
Adrienne Rich
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I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
Fred Durst
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Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
Carl Jung
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
John Banville