Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.. In love… — Pooja Copy Share Image
That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just want to run into your arms and know that you will be there to hold me. The only problem… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our children are only ever lent to us. We never know how long we will be able to keep them for. So… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for… — David Hume Copy Share Image
But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their… — John Piper Copy Share Image
In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on… — Roberto Burle Marx Copy Share Image
I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I know there's a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I'm all for that, too, and I… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
“It is in the imperceptible space between that which touches and that which is touched that one body can be felt, no… — Daniel Heller-Roazen Copy Share Image
The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Love is not something that happens on first sight, It happens when you start knowing each other, And it turn ending up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot… — Stuart Symington Copy Share Image
Care doesn't need powerful eyes or a cute voice or a lovely face.. It always needs a beautiful, responsible heart with affection… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise;… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Love doesn't measure on your expertise nor affection, yet it is through sincerity and how you see that person's flaws, mistakes and… — Mithcelle Soledad Suico Copy Share Image
I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St.… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it's always smart to have a good plan up your… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image