A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back. — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I have a particular affection for zero because it was some of my countrymen who first gave it the status of a… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the… — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
The girls who don't seek attention are usually the girls you need to be giving your attention to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Until I am old and dead, my heart would still beat for your smiles and beautiful affection which you have always shown… — Strawberry Copy Share Image
“There is little more likely to exasperate a person of sense than finding herself tied by affection and habit to an enthusiast.” — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
“Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or property, but for others fate is what happens to their… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Like blind boys they found each other, and confirmed each other, and through the FM of the flesh they sent to one… — Glendon Swarthout Copy Share Image
I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
A lot of humour is about just enjoying life and spontaneity and because you make a joke that puts somebody down -… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is… — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance 2. Understanding 3. Appreciation Remove any one of the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
You just can't force yourself to like somebody! If you don't have affectionate feelings towards that person then you should not try… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important... — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for… — Dornford Yates Copy Share Image
I wish I could lay down with you and forget about the rest of the world. It'll be just both of us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I'm the girl who will put her head on your shoulder, not because she's sleepy, but because she wants to be closer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo. — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes all we need is someone to say I love you to re-ensure us that people still do care. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Try to give your love enough attention to let him know that he is the center of the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image