This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which… — Giambattista Basile Copy Share Image
In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are,… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
“You have a place in my nature which no one else could fill. You have played a fundamental part in my development.… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The Fat Girl Code of Conduct: 1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection. 2. Don’t discuss your… — Carolyn Mackler Copy Share Image
Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The agenda in sexual activity, whether it's appropriate or not, has to do with lust, affection, passion, love, but the agenda in… — Claudia Kennedy Copy Share Image
In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very… — Don Drysdale Copy Share Image
If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to… — William James Copy Share Image
The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my… — William Jones Copy Share Image
“This is for those times when I want to take his hand, or he wants to take mine, but we don’t feel… — Sean Kennedy Copy Share Image
At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been,… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“To feel affection for people even when they make mistakes is uniquely human. You can do it, if you simply recognize: that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
“Touch can have two meanings: it can be an intimate gesture between equals, a way of saying: I care for you. But… — Rebecca East Copy Share Image
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian Copy Share Image
Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to draw so near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
