Schmaltzy Quotes

#1. I try to stay away from the more schmaltzy side of things. That can backfire quickly.

James Wolk

#2. And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

Toots Thielemans

#3. I got you a present."
"Did you?"
"It's a book of poetry
romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

J.D. Robb

#4. I'm not a very sentimental person, so you're not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies.

Cary Fukunaga

#5. The last Christmas movie I really liked was 'It's a Wonderful Life,' probably. It's sort of a schmaltzy movie, but it's not without its dark moments. It still gets to me every year.

Terry Zwigoff

#6. Why isn't there a holiday for all the sad sacks of the world who might actually need a crappy gift or schmaltzy card to cheer them up? I'm waiting for the "Let's All Mope!" day or a "Life Sucks" three-day weekend. Aren't we the ones who really need that box of chocolate?

Kim Askew

#7. Christmas makes me schmaltzy. I'm proud to be level-headed, even a little tough most of the time. But once a year I like to believe that peace on earth may be possible and calories don't count.

Sue Merrell

#8. My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.

Bill De Blasio

#9. But if you say that you are healthy, dynamic and fully alive, your life will be transformed.

Robin S. Sharma

#10. Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#11. Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

Ellen Raskin

#12. We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Miz Louisa, she believed in God with all her soul. But she don't subscribe to church much. She say the way some folk run they's churches, it take God right out cha heart.' - Eugene Randall

David Baldacci

#14. Don't be afraid to change the model.

Reed Hastings

#15. To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

Lawrence Hill

#16. A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It "consents," so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree

Thomas Merton