“You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful.” ReasonMightPowerfulStupidIncrediblesSentimentsHeartfelt Author:Matt Corby
“I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.” ThinkingYearsDoeHardFacesOpportunityIssuesRocksHonorAppreciateLifetimeSorryAfrican AmericanSentimentsAwardsHostI'm SorryTacticsAcademySlapAttendingDisserviceAcademy AwardsBoycottPrestigiousSlap In The FaceOpportunities Of A Lifetime Author:Eva Marcille
“At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work. Within a couple of hundred years, most of those possibilities were abandoned in favor of a text that efficiently transmitted sentiments.” YearsKindLongFormNovelModernPossibilityCoupleHundredFavorsAll KindsProseSentimentsAbandonedEmergenceModern Novel Author:Teju Cole
“It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I liked watching her. The part, though, isn't filled in. When Baker announces that she's gotten too used to the madness of Afghanistan, that she's worried she's thinking of it as normal, the sentiment comes out of nowhere. The dramatic arc in "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" is nonexistent. The movie evaporates in the mind like water in the Afghan desert.” ThinkingMindDoeHardJobsFacesUsedActorsWaterNormalMadnessFilledScreensComicDesertWorriedDramaticSentimentsAfghanistanPullingGood JobWhiskeyArcsBakersTangoAfghanFeyFilled In Author:David Edelstein
“I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come from, and that material things are to make the world a better place" and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.” WorldKidsFatherHellTroubleMaterialsGrewSixGrew UpDiedLatterSentimentsTwelveBetter PlaceSurvivingGood WillMake You HappyMaterial ThingsFather DiedTuberculosisRedirection Author:Bernie Siegel
“Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.” PeopleDoubtPolicyWesternNo DoubtRegionsSentimentsDistrustExtremismDiscontent Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“I think you can take the recent war in Lebanon as a very good example of how this plays. The Americans and their allies clearly stood back - clearly in the eyes of Muslims - and basically said to the Israelis, "Do what you need to do, and we'll hold the ring for you and not call a cease-fire." That perception in the Muslim world very much played to the anti-American sentiment.” ThinkingWorldNeedsSaidWarPlayEyeFireExamplePerceptionVery GoodRingsCeaseSentimentsAlliesGood ExamplesLebanonMuslim WorldAnti-american Author:Michael Scheuer
“I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.” ThinkingShouldSongSentiments Author:Colin Meloy
“I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.” IfsMenMatterSongAudienceWrittenSentimentsCapture Author:Emmy Rossum
“The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.” SeemsCampaignsOrganizedSentimentsPolygamyHorrific Author:Andrew Solomon
“People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you look at the opinion polls, those sentiments are now quite widespread also in continental Europe.” PeopleIfsFeelsLooksRunningOpinionEuropeInstitutionsBritainSentimentsElitesExceptionalPollsShadyContinentalOpinion Polls Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“I first heard "Heaven Without a Gun" when Kevin [Drew] sent it to me, and there was this kind of beauty about it. I don't live that much in the literal world, so you kind of have to see beyond the veil of what you're being shown sometimes. To me, that's such a beautiful, wonderful sentiment.” WorldFirstsKindSometimesBeautifulHeavenWonderfulHeardGunSentimentsVeilsLiteralKevin Author:Andy Kim
“I'm not really one of these people who's been known for particularly hopeful sentiments.” PeopleKnownHopefulSentiments Author:El-P
“The Bernie Sanders phenomenon shows that it's not confined to Republicans. There is a general sentiment that America is on the wrong track.” ShowsAmericaRepublicanTrackPhenomenonSentimentsConfined Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can just have the feeling of those words together, and that you know them and can sing along with that melody with your fist up in the air. It's a wild vehicle for sentiment, because it's so powerful on the musical front.” KnowsPhilosophyFeelingsTogetherPowerfulAirFrontsMusicalMelodySentimentsVehicleFistsOffenceUp In The Air Author:Sarah Harmer
“Florey was not an easy personality. His drive and ambition were manifest from the day he arrived ... He could be ruthless and selfish; on the other hand, he could show kindliness, a warm humanity and, at times, sentiment and a sense of humour.” ShowsHandsScienceHumanityEasyHumourPersonalityAmbitionWarmSelfishSentimentsManifestRuthlessRuthlessnessKindliness Author:Allen Drury
“The sentiment that is very inappropriately named equality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of equality and is not related to any abstraction, as a few naive "intellectuals" still believe; but because it is related to the direct interests of individuals who are bent on escaping certain inequalities not in their favour, and setting up new inequalities that will be in their favour, this latter being their chief concern.” BelieveStillsFactsCertainIndividualStrongInterestConcernDirectSettingSettingsInequalityChiefsRelatedLatterSentimentsBentFavourAbstractionNaiveEscaping Author:Vilfredo Pareto
“The problem is not the sentiment, it's the execution. When a company makes a mistake, the individual benefits because they've learned how NOT to do something while the institution had to pay for the mistake.” ProblemIndividualPayMistakeCompanyBenefitsInstitutionsSentimentsExecution Author:Lewis Schiff
“I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.” IdeasReligiousSentimentsEngagingVocabulary Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory, to the purely secular moral sentiment and interpersonal reaction theories of Smith and Hume, to Kant's attempt to restore command theory but with something supersensible in the individual rather than God as the source of authority.” PhilosophyChristianIndividualBitsMoralVirtueDivineTheorySourceAuthorityAncientReactionsCommandSentimentsSecularMedievalPaganInterpersonalHumeChristian Philosophy Author:Catherine Wilson
“The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold standard among prizes, it is surely his [Bob Dylan] due.” MenStandardsGoldDuesPrizeSentimentsBobDylanNobelAccoladesGold Standard Author:David Bennun
“Lincoln said, public sentiment is everything. We have to listen to the people and come together as we prioritize our agenda and go forward.” PeopleSaidTogetherAgendasSentimentsPrioritize Author:Nancy Pelosi
“I'm not religious, and I feel that has to do with me being uprooted so many times in my life that I've explored many religions and sentiments from many different families basically across the globe.” FeelsDifferentReligiousSentimentsGlobesDifferent Families Author:Masiela Lusha
“I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.” KnowsLeaderKnow HowRecordsConversationAfrican AmericanSentiments Author:Julianne Malveaux
“It's also a terrible kind of sentiment [ reality TV] for children and for people. It makes people feel like they all want to be famous for no reason.” PeopleWantFeelsKindChildrenReasonRealityTvsTerribleNo ReasonSentimentsReality Tv Author:Chelsea Handler
“I wrote, in total, about 50 or so songs (finished and unfinished) in the 2 and a half years leading up until this moment, and trying to decide what songs to include on the Mini-Album was super difficult, because there were so many different sound/mood roads I could have gone down. But, after going through everything, these tracks seemed to fit together and communicate a similar sentiment and mood the best.” TryingYearsDifferentMomentsTogetherSongDifficultSoundHalfGoneFitTrackAlbumsCommunicateFinishedMoodSentimentsUnfinishedHalf A Year Author:St. Lucia
“I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.” ThinkingWayShouldStatesCertainSentiments Author:Sergio Leone
“I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.” ThinkingWantGivingProblemOpportunityWhiteReaderRacismBarriersSentimentsImaginary Author:Vivek Shraya
“We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a framing that sets each of them on equal footing, and implicitly analogies the political situation to a fist fight, a soccer match, or a domestic quarrel. So if, then, the only two intelligible political positions are "pro-Palestinian" or "pro-Israeli," the presumption is that one's position is determined by a sentiment that wants one side to win over the other.” IfsWantKindTwoPoliticalFightingWinningSidesSituationPositionConflictEqualRegardIsraelDeterminedInstanceSoccerSentimentsPalestinianPalestineFistsQuarrelsIsraeliAnalogiesPresumptionFramingIf Then Author:Judith Butler
“In the 60s there were a lot of things which were anarchistic. May-June '68 was riddled by anarchistic sentiments, dreams and ideals, but insofar as this was not strengthened organizationally and intellectually by a very effective, powerful infrastructure, then what happens is the movement becomes dissipated.” MayDreamHappensPowerfulMovementIdealsSentimentsInfrastructureJune Author:Murray Bookchin
“The IMF is a more complicated issue. I think there is a broad sentiment among both the left and the right that the IMF may be doing more harm than good. On the right, there's the view that it represents a form of corporate welfare that is counter to the IMF's own ideology of markets. But anybody who has watched government from the inside recognizes that governments need institutions, need ways to respond to crises. If the IMF weren't there, it would probably be reinvented. So the issue is fundamentally reform.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsMayGovernmentFormLeftViewsIssuesCrisisInstitutionsComplicatedHarmIdeologyReformCorporateWelfareSentimentsBroadsImf Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."” FeelsSentimentsContemptFranklinAbhorrence Author:Gordon S. Wood
“I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true.” Love IsTeachFakeSentimentsReally True Author:Tom Hanks
“We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria and we elevated what I call the reign of mediocrity. Quite frankly, I think it is about repudiating the past, creating space for new thinking for the best of the new generation, creating both political and geographical space and going at it with single mindedness that says, 'enough of buttering, sentiments and massaging the ego of the old brigade'.” ThinkingHumansMadeEnoughPastPoliticalSpaceCommonGenerationsHugeEgoCreatingErrorsAvailableAcknowledgeSentimentsSatisfyingMediocrityReignLowestNigeriaNew GenerationHuman PotentialCommon DenominatorLowest Common DenominatorSingle Mindedness Author:Wole Soyinka
“In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The abolitionists helped to create a public discourse in which men like Lincoln become possible. That doesn't mean Lincoln is an abolitionist. It means there is a public opinion out there which is being influenced by antislavery sentiment.” PeopleMenMeanSaidOpinionImpossibleDemocraticSentimentsDiscoursePublic OpinionMaxDemocratic SocietyAbolitionistPublic DiscourseWeber Author:Eric Foner
“Even after the whole democratization process, it's quite clear that the United States are not seen in a positive way in all the Muslim-majority countries - in Egypt, in Libya, even in Tunisia - even though we have now a kind of trying to be recognized as democrats by the Islamists who are running, you know, Tunisia and Egypt. But the popular sentiment is very, very negative.” KnowsWayTryingKindCountryStatesWholeRunningProcessUnitedUnited StatesClearNegativeMajorityDemocratSentimentsEgyptLibyaIslamistsDemocratizationTunisia Author:Tariq Ramadan
“What we have within the Sunni tradition is this clash between the literalists and all the other trends and the Salafi movement, that are very much acting on the ground and using the popular sentiment to act against the West.” ActingMovementTraditionWestSentimentsTrendsClash Author:Tariq Ramadan
“What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsLooksStillsHappensPoliticalCan DoRevolutionIntellectualSpringHappeningsOptimismStartingAwakeningAnalysisSentimentsDictatorCautiousStarting PointPolitical PowerAdvocatingIrreversibleArab WorldArab Spring Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Whenever I hear people utter anti-German sentiments, I say: You can't blame Germany for defending its own interests.” PeopleInterestBlameGermanySentiments Author:Marine Le Pen
“I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences between the established and outsiders group, which create tension and irritation, is not the form of the face or the skin color but the form of behavior: something learned. The form of behavior and feeling, of sentiment, is different in the immigrant groups from that of the established groups, and that may give rise to an enormous irritation.” GivingDifferentFeelingsProblemSpeakBehaviorRacismSkinsTensionSentimentsOutsiders Author:Norbert Elias
“The integration in Germany was made easier by the fact that I am probably of the third generation. So I have undergone a process of assimilation, of Jews into German society.I lived as a child in Germany, the feeling of being surrounded by people of whom the majority had very strong anti-Semitic sentiments. But there was one very odd thing in the whole milieu in which I lived: no one accepted the stigmatization. It is quite difficult. No one, my father for instance, would ever take it seriously. He would regard anti-Semites as people of no education.” PeopleChildrenFeelingsFatherStrongDifficultJewAcceptedOddSentimentsVery StrongIntegrationAssimilation Author:Norbert Elias
“It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in philosophical writing. There are probably a number of reasons, but I think that a predilection for a certain kind of individualism is a major one. Others might include the fashionability of consequentialism, the idea that loyalty has more to do with sentiment than reason, as well as its proneness to corruption. The revival of interest in virtue/character as distinct from rules/principles has also created space for a renewed, if hesitant, interest in loyalty.” ThinkingWritingKindReasonCharacterValuesLiteratureInterestVirtuePhilosophicalCorruptionLoyaltyOddDramaticSentimentsIndividualismRevival Author:John Kleinig
“Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without sentiment.” ThinkingImpossiblePoliticianSentiments Author:Matteo Renzi
“I agree with the sentiment that it's probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren't so than to not believe something - you know, to believe in a lie.” BelieveLyingDangerousAgreeSentiments Author:Daniel Levitin
“The Party leader at the time, Jiang Zemin, wanted to show the world China's new status. And in winning the bid, the leaders could show the people how strong the government was. Plus, the leadership wanted to use the Olympics to strengthen nationalist sentiment.” PeopleWorldWinningStrongPartyLeaderSentiments Author:Liu Xiaobo
“Our skin, our borders, all seem petty compared to alien races and the scale of galaxies. Nobody in the Star Wars universe cares about white or black humans, it seems, and what meaning could physical appearance possibly have when there are sentient beings that look like lobsters or like Jabba the Hutt? Unfortunately, in the real world, such hopeful sentiments are regularly refuted by our stubborn insistence on always finding someone to discriminate against.” WorldWarRealCareUniverseBlackSkinsAppearanceAliensHopefulSentimentsReal WorldStubbornGalaxyInsistenceFinding SomeonePhysical Appearance Author:Garry Kasparov
“What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our future is just as goopy with sentiment as our past. To me, they're the same, both very tempting, and I don't believe in either, although the idealism is probably important.” BelieveImportantDreamPastCommonShareSentimentsOur FutureImaginaryWholenessIdealismOur PastNostalgic Author:Charles D'Ambrosio
“I connect with techno way more than house. I find it frustrating people call me a house artist because I think my music in general is more in the tradition of techno. House is celebratory and extroverted. I don't connect with that sentiment.” PeopleThinkingArtistHouseTraditionCall MeSentimentsFrustrating Author:Galcher Lustwerk
“I hate sentiment when it's inappropriate. I saw someone who went and saw an exhibition and came out in tears. If an exhibition drives you to tears you need to see a psychiatrist immediately. That's what I think.” ThinkingHateTearsI HateSentimentsPsychiatristInappropriate Author:Pierre Berge