Best 602 quotes in «affection quotes» category

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

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

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

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

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

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

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.

A lot of humour is about just enjoying life and spontaneity and because you make a joke that puts somebody down - we're always teasing each other. It's with affection. It's nasty teasing that we - not all teasing; nasty teasing you cut out.

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.

A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.

A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection

A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

Barça has always given me great affection, and even to this day. I only have words of gratitude for them

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

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.

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

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.

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

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