Best 602 quotes in «affection quotes» category

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments.

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

Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him.

But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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.

But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.

But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.

Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.

Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.

Chastening is a mark of affection, not a sign of rejection.

Cinderella could not be more wonderful, as a woman. You're with her, the whole film. I had to create a guy that was worthy of her affections, and that was difficult.

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

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.

Entire affection hateth nicer hands.

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.

England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.

Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.

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.

Find the things that stir your affections for Christ and saturate your life in them. Find the things that rob you of that affection and walk away from them. That's the Christian life as easy as I can explain it for you.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

Food is one part. Love is another part. So, the food will give them physical nutrition. The love and affection which you show, will give them mental nutrition.

For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

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

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel.

Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.