Affection Quotations | Page 3

considering that it is impossible to talk about affection and feelings with a heartless man. Maybe drugs have made him so, but now I have had enough of (his) nastiness.

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

They are two class individuals and I know they have a great affection for the people in Tennessee, for that organization, as they should, ... There is nothing like going home and being in a competitive atmosphere.

They made a lot of money and Sibley got into agriculture - his first love - and began grafting, seed testing and raising horses. He created such a good stock of trotting horses and Jersey cattle that they would set records across the country. ...He had a great affection for that, which came from the soil.

They'll see a figure like Princess Diana who many people feel great affection for and suck them in that way.

Not only synagogues are holy, but so are all places where people find their affinity with their God.

The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.

At times, particularly in childhood, I was intimidated by Constance, but she dictated from an aura of affection for me that was never threatening.

I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.

I love getting love and affection . . . and I like giving affection in return.

I'm both gratified and a little surprised at the on-rush of sentiment and affection for him that we've seen. You would suppose that in these circumstances a lot of hyperbole goes on, and I'm just not seeing that. This affection for Tim pre-existed these circumstances.

I may be half the man I used to be. But my heart is still the same and my affection for this community has not died. What kind of world can I create now, what type of person can I become, what type of legacy can I leave now, not what I did before but what can I do now.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

In the early stages, it showed affection for the president. But now what you want is somebody with maturity and confidence who doesn't need that kind of assurance.

I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly low flame.

I have such deep affection and love for these characters, I find it hard to be disappointed by them.

I really have an affection for York, ... It was the first place where my father came to see me play pro ball.

In fact nobody has ever complained about the sorts of things I say because it is done with affection and is obviously light-hearted,

I'm very fond of drugs.

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life...

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.

I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.

The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.

How nearly is natural affection connected with the love of God (for if we love not our Brother whom we have seen how can we love God whom we have not seen how can we love God whom we have not seen), but I live in hopes and expectation of several upon the road, which may arrive, perhaps sooner than I expect.

He shows great potential, but he's not there yet. But they weren't 'there' after being in the public eye for as short a time as Clooney has. It takes a long time to be a Cary Grant, to win the affection of the world the way he did.

I cannot stop them. This is their affection and love and we live for this. And I hope that this love and affection remains with us so that we are inspired to work more and be able to satisfy their desires and expectations,

I believe he has a deep interest and concern and affection for the community. He is a thoughtful person and reflects the values of the community.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.

A hug is like a strangle you haven't finished yet.

Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.

Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses ...

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

affection is a habit.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!

Love is the piety of the affections.

Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the withering and consumption of all the painted beauties of this world, to the crucifying all things here below, until they become to me a dead and deformed thing, no way suitable for affectionate embraces.

Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.

To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know ... widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.

I think if you're Red Sox, well, it's something you're born with, and affection you have.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

You win My love in full measure. Love is My highest Miracle. Love can make you gather the affection of all mankind. Love will not tolerate any selfish aim or approach, Love is God. Live in Love. Then all is right; all can be well.

The early years were pretty rocky, there were a lot of fights, a lot of disagreements, some edginess, ... Gradually, I think, we came to really enjoy doing this show and really respect the other guy. In recent years there was a great deal of affection and friendship.

The city of Chicago was a character in the movie, as depicted by Landis and I think all of us, in the affection we had for it. It really is one of the characters of the movie. It really comes alive as a beautiful place.

In the last 20, 22 years I have sung here very often and I have always felt the affection and warmth of the Italians, and I feel very close to you.

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

In life, there are no perfect affections.

The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.

Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.

The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.