Best 602 quotes in «affection quotes» category

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

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

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 never change, except in my affections.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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 the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

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

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 the piety of the affections.