I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be…

I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was…

— John Prine

“You want to capture a gun-crazed murderer during a Category Four hurricane.” Shelton’s gaze rose to the heavens. “Any idea how dangerous that sounds?”…

— Kathy Reichs

Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I can’t be generous with time, but I try to be generous…

— Florence Welch

“Patience really is a virtue I don't hurriedly possess!”

— Sharon Fletcher

If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints.

— James Dee Richardson

Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

— Robert Burns

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness…

— Lewis Thomas

Affection! Affection is false.

— Elizabeth I

A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of…

— Dalai Lama

I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary…

— William Shakespeare

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

— Edmund Burke

“It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.”

— Kahlil Gibran

Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need…

— Lorii Myers

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you…

— Shakira