Best 602 quotes in «affection quotes» category

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

Nothing really affected me until Elvis.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.

Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.

Pow'r above pow'rs! O heavenly eloquence! That with the strong rein of commanding words, Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of men's affections, more than all their swords!

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

Personal relationships are often based on affection - professional relationships can have affection but they must have mutual understanding, trust and respect.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection and they memorized my songs in Spanish.

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.

"Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.

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?

Remember your natural affection for all of creation.

Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.

She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

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.

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

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.

The affection is mainly biological factor. Then further sort of strengthening, that religion helps.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

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.

The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.