Affection Quotes · Page 15

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not…

— William Shakespeare

Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from…

— Wendell Berry

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the…

— Deepak Chopra

I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.

— David Cassidy

Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent…

— Stanley Crouch

If we verily bear the cross we shall be neither controlled nor influenced by soulical affection but shall be fit to love…

— Watchman Nee

A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice…

— Edward Gibbon

Typing a huge paragraph with your true feelings, but then erasing it and typing 'yeah...'

— Anonymous

Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for…

— Charles Dickens

Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps…

— David O. McKay

The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

I have only admiration and affection for the people of Sherpa Capital, including my co-founder Scott Stanford.

— Shervin Pishevar

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

— Charles Dickens

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the…

— Sarah Bernhardt

No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers…

— Richard Sibbes

“No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.”

— Pradeepa Pandiyan

Barça has always given me great affection, and even to this day. I only have words of gratitude for them

— David Villa

The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender…

— David Hume

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and…

— Georgette Heyer

“What's the best way to say because it's too embarrassing to talk to a crush about sex and read an explicit thing…

— C.B. Lee

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

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

— Plato

Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye,…

— William Gilmore Simms