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.

For us sons of France political sentiment is a passion while for the Englishmen politics are a question of business.

Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy combination and arrangement.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet though he has never written a line in all his life.