Best 602 quotes in «affection quotes» category

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.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

Natural Magick therefore is that, which considering well the strength and force of Natural and Celestial beings, and with great curiosity labouring to discover their affections, produces into open Act the hidden and concealed powers of Nature.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

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

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

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!

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