Affection Quotations | Page 4

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?

…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

At the point when affection is not frenzy, it is not adore.

It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.

Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown The love that withholds touching,afraid of what it would say And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is.., it never fades away

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

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

Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

Cinderella could not be more wonderful, as a woman. You're with her, the whole film. I had to create a guy that was worthy of her affections, and that was difficult.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.

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

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.

Love requited is a short circuit.

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!

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

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

There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in the whole course of their lives, in their manner of using the world, because it can have no place anywhere else.

Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

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.

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

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

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

The more merit, the less affection.

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

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

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Most people would rather get than give affection

Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall. In a monarchy, it is affection and respect for the royal family. If that is lost the monarch is lost. In a dictatorship, it is fear. If the people stop fearing the dictator he'll lose power. In a representative government such as ours, it is virtue. If virtue goes, the government fails. Are we choosing paths that are politically expedient and morally questionable? Are we in truth losing our virtue? . . . If so, we may be nearer the dustbin of history than we realize.

No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, wi

I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humor not pursuing his, And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me.

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

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

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection.

Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

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

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow.

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other.

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

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

That trial is not fair where affection is judge

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it

Skins may differ, but affectionDwells in white and black the same.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

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

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

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

The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

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

I never change, except in my affections.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

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