The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates…

“If one’s friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not, in fact, his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying…

— Dean Koontz

“...if one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying…

— Dean Koontz

“he expressed his love more often with pats on the head and affectionate smiles than with kisses and extravagant proclamations of devotion.”

— Dean Koontz

There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social…

— Richard L. Evans

“She scanned the room, and her grin broadened when she saw Christian. She then sought me out. Her smile for him had been affectionate;…

— Richelle Mead

I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own…

— Dalai Lama

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection

— Jack Butler Yeats

Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and…

— Owen Gleiberman

If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named…

— Ursula Vernon

I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them.

— Tom Stoppard

We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to…

— Dallas Willard

One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half…

— Willa Cather

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I am convinced that human nature is basically affectionate and good. If our behavior follows our kind and loving nature, immense benefits will result,…

— Dalai Lama

“Emira realized that Briar probably didn't know how to say good-bye because she never had to do it before. But whether she said good-bye…

— Kiley Reid