Best 602 quotes in «affection quotes» category

If you the owner of the dog, really showing not just food but real affection, then dog very much appreciate. Isn't it?

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of affection, but I don't see any reason for programming languages to show affection with pain.

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting

I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men.

I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.

I'm very fond of piano players.

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.

I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humor not pursuing his, And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

In the last 20, 22 years I have sung here very often and I have always felt the affection and warmth of the Italians, and I feel very close to you.

I obviously have a lot of love and affection for the people of Hamilton from playing there for so long.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

I never change, except in my affections.

I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that i always feel revived, as by a new convinction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and wanting these, I relapse into doubt and often into despondency.

Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

I shot "Footloose" nearby and we used to hike. Very fond memories.

I still had the same affection for New Zealand as I've always had. Didn't change at all.

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.

It’s easy: You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail you’ll find a throne; and whatever, or whoever, is on that throne is what’s of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.

It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career.

I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.