Quotes and Sayings about Affection
"I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: People, Affection)
"Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: Men, Morality, Motives)
"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Affection, Past, Woman)
"Most people would rather give than get affection."
- Aristotle
(Related: People, Affection)
"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."
- Aristotle
(Related: Affection, Woman)
"The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Soul, Self)
"I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great."
- Rene Auberjonois
(Related: Father, Son, Affection, Alienation, Law)
"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Affection)
"My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God."
- Bob Balaban
(Related: Family, God)
"That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life."
- Amelia Barr
(Related: Death, Life, Mistake, Kings)
"The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature."
- William Bartram
(Related: Nature, Human nature, Sensibility)
"We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates."
- Victoria Beckham
(Related: Soul, Thought, Being, Day, Party, Soul mates)
"My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom."
- Franz Boas
(Related: Home, Father, Affection, Freedom, Influence)
"During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home."
- Daniel Boone
(Related: Home, Purpose, Affection)
"Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections."
- Daniel Boone
(Related: Soul, Curiosity, Influence, Man)
"The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success."
- Lucien Bouchard
(Related: Success, Job, Musicians, Promise)
"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Kiss, Affection, Passion, Sweetness)
"The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers."
- John Britton
(Related: Life, Feelings, Strangers, Years)
"You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Nothing, Sisters, Value, World)
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection."
- Buddha
(Related: Love, Affection, Universe)
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
- Buddha
(Related: Love, Affection, Universe)
"Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Happiness, Desire, Man, Variety)
"The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Happiness, Rest, Self)
"The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Heart, Affection, Appetite, Self, Sense)
"God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: God, Affection, Appetite, Passion, Senses)
"Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Happiness, Nature, Enjoyment, Satisfaction)
"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: May, Measure)
"People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Love, People, Affection)
"It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married."
- Jim Carrey
(Related: Love, Ideas, Affection)
"We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment."
- Lillian Gordy Carter
(Related: Affection, Judgment, May, Respect)
"And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions."
- Margaret Cavendish
(Related: Brothers, Children, Law, Sisters)
"The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved."
- Galeazzo Ciano
(Related: Men)
"The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer."
- Julian Clary
(Related: Time, Affection, Gay, Public, Right)
"Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders."
- Nick Clooney
(Related: Affection, Animals, Respect)
"As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other."
- Nick Clooney
(Related: Affection, Animals, Force, Interest, May)
"I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning."
- Jonathan Coe
(Related: Life, Work, Affection, Culture, Meaning, Value)
"In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either."
- Perry Como
(Related: Money, Business, Affection, Reward, Years)
"But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched."
- Perry Como
(Related: Affection, May, Today)
"Affection reproaches, but does not denounce."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Affection)
"Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: People, Affection, World)
"Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!"
- Peter Cushing
(Related: Fear, Affection, Influence, Man, Today, Will, Youth)
"A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Heart, Man, Wishes)
"It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often."
- Larry David
(Related: Day)
"If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr."
- Martin Delany
(Related: Affection, Favorite)
"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."
- Princess Diana
(Related: Love, Affection, Journey, Kindness, Public)
"Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue."
- John Dryden
(Related: Love, Virtue, End, Goodness, Grace, Will)
"I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated."
- David Duchovny
(Related: Love, Food, Affection, Care, Dogs)
"I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here."
- George Dzundza
(Related: Love, People, Affection, Kindness)
"Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers."
- Charles Eastman
(Related: Time, People, Affection, Feeling, Guests, Strangers)
"Jealousy is the grave of affection."
- Mary Baker Eddy
(Related: Affection, Grave, Jealousy)
"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
- George Eliot
(Related: Difference, Jokes, Taste)
"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."
- George Eliot
(Related: People, Witty)
"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."
- George Eliot
(Related: Affection, Faults, Heaven)
"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
- George Eliot
(Related: Jokes, Taste)
"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."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Christianity, Affection, Chastity, Exercise, Intimacy, Romantic, Sexes)
"If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration."
- Lincoln Ellsworth
(Related: Father, Son, Admiration, Affection, Respect)
"Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections."
- Gloria Estefan
(Related: Being, Parents)
"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."
- Nan Fairbrother
(Related: Love, Affection, Learning)
"I obviously have a lot of love and affection for the people of Hamilton from playing there for so long."
- Darren Flutie
(Related: Love, People, Affection)
"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Affection, Friends, Will)
"What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me."
- Anna Freud
(Related: People, Affection, Nothing, Opinion)
"The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones."
- Northrop Frye
(Related: People, Being, Fact, Metaphor, Sheep)
"Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long."
- Marguerite Gardiner
(Related: Absence, Affection, Friends, Meeting, Regret, Separation, Wonders)
"When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered."
- Marguerite Gardiner
(Related: Time, Affection, Doubt)
"I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart."
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
(Related: Heart, Affection, Word)
"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Friendship)
"If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Friend, Affection, Will)
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Art, Knowledge, Affection, Ignorance, Silence)
"There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance."
- George Gillespie
(Related: Error, Ignorance, Man, Understanding, Will)
"The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children."
- William Godwin
(Related: Love, Affection, Children, Parents, Sentiment)
"A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Kiss)
"Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?"
- Andrew Greeley
(Related: Love, Sex, Affection)
"You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Sensibility)
"But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love."
- Ernie Harwell
(Related: Love, People, Affection, Fans)
"All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Related: Men, Life, Love, Battle, Fight)
"Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Related: Life, Love, Will)
"When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that."
- Patricia Heaton
(Related: Affection, Support)
"A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Admiration, Affection, Pity)
"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."
- Audrey Hepburn
(Related: Affection)
"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
(Related: Love, People, Affection, Being, Care, Children, Culture, Dictators, Gold)
"Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time."
- Anthony Holden
(Related: Money, Success, Time, Wedding, Affection, Goodwill, Investment, Public, Words)
"The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection."
- J. G. Holland
(Related: Affection, Man, World)
"No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him."
- Herbert Hoover
(Related: American, Honor, Public, School)
"The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other."
- Mark Hopkins
(Related: Love, Power, Affection, Consciousness, Exercise, Giving, Race)
"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection."
- William Dean Howells
(Related: Affection, Man, Respect)
"Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Father, Brother, Son, Heart, Friend, Heaven, Stars)
"Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding."
- David Hume
(Related: Eloquence, Reason, Reflection, Understanding)
"The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen."
- Lee Iacocca
(Related: Will)
"THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government."
- Charles Inglis
(Related: Government, Duty, Fame, Interest, Security)
"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."
- Charles Inglis
(Related: Affection, Spirit)
"All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate."
- Charles Inglis
(Related: Soul, Principles)
"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections."
- Washington Irving
(Related: History, Life, Woman)
"Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Power, Affection, Motives, Public, Support, Taxation)
"Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Love, Affection)
"Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: People, Affection, Nothing, Race, Will)
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
- John Keats
(Related: Imagination, Truth, Heart, Holiness, Nothing)
"No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation."
- Abdul Qadeer Khan
(Related: Love, Money, Affection, Earth, Nation)
"Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand."
- Aly Khan
(Related: Knowledge, Christianity, Islam, Affection, Ideals, Intimacy, Past, Spiritual)
"Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Life, People, Desire, Grace, Loyalty)
"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
- Dalai Lama
(Related: Religion, Affection, Meditation)
"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: People, Affection)
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Happiness, Affection)
"Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book."
- Michael Lewis
(Related: Affection)
"After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me."
- William Lilly
(Related: Affection)
"I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices."
- Franz Liszt
(Related: Affection)
"I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations."
- Henry Cabot Lodge
(Related: Affection, Devotion, Nations)
"Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Affection, Talk)
"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Affection, Man, Security)
"There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it."
- Max Lucado
(Related: Time, Love)
"All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed."
- Norman MacCaig
(Related: Poetry, Affection, Books, Fishing, Miscellaneous, Prose)
"Disaffection stalks around us."
- Dolley Madison
"Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo."
- Leonard Maltin
(Related: Time, Affection)
"Grief is only the memory of widowed affections."
- James Martineau
(Related: Grief, Memory)
"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior."
- Abraham Maslow
(Related: People, Feelings, Affection, Behavior, Fact, Security, Will)
"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Mother)
"In life, there are no perfect affections."
- James Merrill
(Related: Life)
"When affection only speaks, truth is not always there."
- Thomas Middleton
(Related: Truth, Affection)
"It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good."
- Maria Mitchell
(Related: Woman)
"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Sports, Love, Affection, Behavior, Grace, Learning, Nurses, Words)
"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to."
- Alfred A. Montapert
(Related: Love, People, Actions, Animals)
"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Time, Affection, Desire, Woman)
"Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country."
- Karl Philipp Moritz
(Related: Love, Country, Man, Poets)
"The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved."
- Edward R. Murrow
(Related: Men, Affection, Country, Order, Respect, Want)
"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."
- Ovid
(Related: Heart, Misfortune)
"Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity."
- Saskya Pandita
(Related: Men, Affection, Cause, Familiarity, Quarrels)
"I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings."
- Dick Van Patten
(Related: Love, People, Affection, Animals, Loyalty)
"Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!"
- John Pearson
(Related: Love, Men, Nature, Affection)
"Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love."
- Bernadette Peters
(Related: Love, Affection, Animals, Attention)
"Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection."
- Pindar
(Related: Affection, Reality)
"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Man, Manners, Simplicity, Wit)
"It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying."
- Marcel Proust
(Related: People, Affection, Dying)
"Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart."
- Basil Rathbone
(Related: Heart, Affection, Nothing, Regret)
"Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Love, Affection, First, May, State, Will)
"But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you."
- Eric Roberts
(Related: Love, Affection, Animals, Right)
"If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Love, Affection, Hatred)
"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Affection, Friends)
"Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Related: Affection, Enemy, Self)
"Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?"
- Ernestine Rose
(Related: Wife, Husband, Law, Right)
"Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi."
- Charles Rosen
(Related: Affection, Public)
"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight."
- Leo Rosten
(Related: Humor, Communication)
"Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people."
- Bob Schaffer
(Related: Government, People, Affection, Now, Police, Support)
"My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you."
- Shakira
(Related: Love, Affection, Respect)
"I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Life, People, Affection, Giving)
"It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him."
- Michael Shanks
(Related: Character, Affection, Play)
"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Affection, Years)
"All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Life, Affection)
"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Death, Heart, Affection, Echo, Grief, Now, Words)
"Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age."
- Matthew Simpson
(Related: Age, Ideas, Thoughts, Living)
"Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster."
- Agnes Smedley
(Related: Family, Mother, Father, Affection, Class, Disaster, Disgrace, Kissing, Weakness)
"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature."
- Adam Smith
(Related: Nature, Exercise, Human nature, Perfection, Selfishness)
"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Love, Amusement, Malice)
"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."
- Susan Sontag
(Related: Thought, Surrealism)
"What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?"
- Robert Southey
(Related: Affection, Spirit, Will, Woman)
"My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful."
- Dusty Springfield
"I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people."
- Kenneth Starr
(Related: People, Affection, Loyalty, President)
"The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Life, Affection, Heaven, Hell, State)
"Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords."
- John Sterling
(Related: World)
"My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question."
- David Ogden Stiers
(Related: Faith, Family, Father, Affection, Man, Question, Years)
"Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision."
- Madeleine Stowe
(Related: Funny, Character, Vision, Affection, Talking)
"In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love."
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
(Related: Love, Fear, Affection, Pride, Sentimentality)
"Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect."
- Algernon Sydney
(Related: Men, Nothing)
"He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection."
- Terence
(Related: Mistake, Affection, Authority, Force)
"The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence."
- Mercy Otis Warren
(Related: Affection, Independence, Influence, Principles, states, United)
"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."
- Ethel Waters
(Related: Affection, Tenderness, Want)
"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."
- Evelyn Waugh
(Related: Daughter, Affection, Children, Now)
"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."
- Walt Whitman
(Related: Country, Proof)
"Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today."
- John Sergeant Wise
(Related: People, Angels, Humanity, Interest, Today)
"While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able."
- Douglas Wood
(Related: Home, Sister, Affection, Chicago, Parents, Visit)
"When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul."
- Dornford Yates
(Related: Time, Soul, Affection, Writer)
"Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means."
- Henny Youngman
(Related: Home, Love, Affection, Night, Tenderness, Woman, Wrong)
"The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him."
- Xun Zi
(Related: Affection, Boasts, Deception, Man)
"The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it."
- Zhang Ziyi
(Related: Leadership, Affection, Day, Girls, School, Teachers)