I deny myself gentler kinds of affection—to touch or be…

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

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

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

— Henry Ward Beecher

If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that…

— John Taylor Gatto

I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son…

— Hannah More

The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot…

— David Axelrod

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

“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It…

— Rebecca Solnit