How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
[Our family] love our father's image because the only thing we received from him was love and affection. We recognize that our… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ask me what I want,” Vicious murmured into my face. The public display of affection from him—not sexual, not bullying, but pure,… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy.… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
“There was something behind the softness that intertwined our fingers together—love? It felt different from two days ago. All I could think… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“You want to capture a gun-crazed murderer during a Category Four hurricane.” Shelton’s gaze rose to the heavens. “Any idea how dangerous… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
“Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
“Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to draw so near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every female just wants affection, attention, appreciation, and for you to listen and protect her emotions. They are beautiful. And no one… — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and… — Lenny Kaye Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
“For me that's the only way of understanding a particular term that everyone here bandies about quite happily, but which clearly can't… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare (the rational welfare) of the person involved into one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war… — John Adams Copy Share Image
To some extent it [Mr. Bush's standing in the polls] is affecting the races, but only because the races really haven't begun.… — John Brabender Copy Share Image
That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself;… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to… — George K. Simon Jr Copy Share Image
The way of awakening and freedom requires that we ask ourselves, with all of the earnestness, honesty, and humility at our command,… — Scott Morrison Copy Share Image
Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
David knew that the very quality of his worship was not based on his own volition but on the object of his… — Laura Story Copy Share Image