Best 602 quotes in «affection quotes» category

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

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 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’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.

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

It was good to be here with Hem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he could never get back.

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 utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

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.

I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.

I was born and raised here [in Florida], so I still have tremendous affection for the state - especially the few wild places that haven't disappeared under concrete. What's left is still worth fighting for, and that's why I stay.

Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything!

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Love is the piety of the affections.

Love requited is a short circuit.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace.

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.

My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did.