Best 602 quotes in «affection quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

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

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

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.

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

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

Entire affection hateth nicer hands.

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.

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

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.