Best 602 quotes in «affection quotes» category

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Remember your natural affection for all of creation.

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

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

...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.

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

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

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

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 enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment.

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.