Best 602 quotes in «affection quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

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

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

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.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought me worthy to be so spoken to - capable of understanding and duly appreciating such discourse - was enough.

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.

His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

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