Affection famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
-- Abdul Qadeer Khan -
A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.
-- Adoniram Judson Gordon -
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy,
-- Andres Iniesta -
If you’d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you’d be better off accidentally than you’ve ever been on purpose!
-- Andrew Wommack -
I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.
-- Anjelica Huston -
I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that i always feel revived, as by a new convinction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and wanting these, I relapse into doubt and often into despondency.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
-- Anna Freud -
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
-- Anthony Holden -
The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.
-- Aristotle -
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero -
Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.
-- Ashley Purdy -
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.
-- Augustine Birrell -
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.
-- Bernhard Schlink -
A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.
-- Bertrand Russell -
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.
-- Bhumibol Adulyadej -
We offer love to our customers. And in return, we receive the finest smiles. And even if we cannot return their affection, at least we can offer a rose.
-- Bisco Hatori -
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
-- Brennan Manning -
Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.
-- Byron Nelson -
All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.
-- C. J. Mahaney -
All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
-- Cesare Pavese -
LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.
-- Charles Inglis -
A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection
-- Charles M. Schulz -
There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.
-- Charles Nodier -
Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.
-- Charles Rosen -
She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?
-- Christopher Paolini -
I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.
-- Clara Schumann -
Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.
-- Dalai Lama -
It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.
-- Dalai Lama -
There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.
-- Daniel Keyes -
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
-- Daniel Keyes -
I obviously have a lot of love and affection for the people of Hamilton from playing there for so long.
-- Darren Flutie -
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
-- Demosthenes -
I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.
-- Dianne Wiest -
Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace.
-- Donald Barnhouse -
When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.
-- Dornford Yates -
My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.
-- Dusty Springfield -
We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.
-- Edmund Burke -
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ...
-- Eliza Haywood -
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.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.
-- Eric Roberts -
I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of affection, but I don't see any reason for programming languages to show affection with pain.
-- Erik Naggum -
It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.
-- Erlend Loe -
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
-- Ethel Waters -
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Her affection for everything she could love increased.
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett -
When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.
-- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia -
The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Hatter!" She would have hugged him if she hadn't thought he'd be bothered by the dislay of affection. Pterry good timing." Dodge smiled. "A litte sooner and you would've been perfect.
-- Frank Beddor -
I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
-- Franz Liszt -
When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
-- Gary Zukav -
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-- Gautama Buddha -
I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.
-- George Best -
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
-- George Crabbe -
O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.
-- George Eliot -
Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.
-- George Eliot -
I'd never seen Marcello [Mastroianni] truly in love with a woman. I called him "the man who couldn't love." He was capable of enormous amounts of affection. He respected the women who were close to him, but never once fell in love.
-- Giovanna Cau -
I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.
-- Giuseppe Garibaldi -
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.
-- Harriet Martineau -
There's something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
Natural Magick therefore is that, which considering well the strength and force of Natural and Celestial beings, and with great curiosity labouring to discover their affections, produces into open Act the hidden and concealed powers of Nature.
-- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa -
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.
-- Helen Keller -
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
-- Henry de Montherlant -
To lead men, you have to lead them with affection.
-- J. R. D. Tata -
To be a leader, you have got to lead human beings with affection
-- J. R. D. Tata -
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection
-- Jack Butler Yeats -
There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.
-- James Gates Percival -
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
-- Jane Addams -
If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
-- Janis Joplin -
I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.
-- Jeff Perry -
A hug is like a strangle you haven't finished yet.
-- Jenny Lawson -
Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
-- Joanna Baillie -
There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann -
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.
-- John Campbell Shairp -
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
-- John Dryden -
The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.
-- John Garamendi -
Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.
-- John Hench -
It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.
-- John Knowles -
Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.
-- John of Ruysbroeck -
Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.
-- John Owen -
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
-- John Sterling -
Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
-- John Wolcot -
I think if you're Red Sox, well, it's something you're born with, and affection you have.
-- Johnny Pesky -
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
-- Jonathan Edwards -
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.
-- Jose Carreras
