Anne Frank

I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously, but only the 'light-hearted' Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the 'deeper' Anne is too weak.

German Writer

Kourtney Kardashian

I have so many pieces that once belonged to my mom and both of my grandmothers. All of these pieces are very sentimental, and I love to wear them. I also have many pieces from my father that I probably cherish the most. I love wearing his dress shirts.

American Celebrity

Gilbert Hernandez

Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has.

American Artist

John Cooper Clarke

I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of trouble I ain't got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.

English Poet

Paul Simon

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

American Musician

Flannery O'Connor

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

American Author

Jose Jose

What moves me is to know that I have been part of the sentimental life of many couples around the world.

Mexican Musician

Julia Stiles

I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching 'Bridesmaids' and start crying.

American Actress

Terry Eagleton

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

English Critic

Joanna Coles

American Editor

Use 'sentimental' for objects that remind you of happy memories but might not be valuable to others.

Emotional Attachment

'Sentimental' captures a longing for the past, often relating to personal history or tradition.

Past Nostalgia

'Sentimental' implies emotions can quickly surface, especially when recalling past experiences.

Sudden Emotions

Describe someone as 'sentimental' when they let feelings guide them, even if it’s not logical.

Emotion over Reason

In some contexts, being 'sentimental' might be seen as a lack of toughness or practicality.

Perceived Weakness

Calling something 'sentimental' can be a subtle way of saying it's overly emotional or cheesy.

Critique of Sensibility

 and that we use our organizations to create that feeling for others. Beauty can save the world when we embrace these principles and design for them. In the face of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we need a new radical humanism. We must acquire and promote a new aesthetic and sentimental education.

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 was growing up even if you were unsentimental about that in very hard-headed terms you've got to worry about the national security implications of this and the capacity for the existing world order as we understand it to survive the kinds of strains that the scientists are predicting with that

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 What is the lesson from all of this? Geopolitics is a very unsentimental discipline. It's constantly morphing and changing the world, like climate change. And like our relationship with the ecosystem we're always searching for equilibrium

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 It's the achingly sentimental yearning for times that never happened. Somebody once said that nostalgia is the one utterly most useless human emotion -- so I think that’s a case for serious play.

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 You don't care what it is! You just want the person to be alive! And now let me become less sentimental, and say that saving lives -- which some of the aid we get does on this continent --

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala:...

 and I lost my eyesight and was partially paralyzed. And my family brought in a woman whose mother had been a slave to take care of me. And that woman did not have sentimental compassion.