Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
And I realize just how beautiful you are to me and how great you affections are for me~Jesus(: — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“All kinds of beauty do not captivate love. There is a kind that only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come natural ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In me all affections take place on the surface, but sincerely. I've always been an actor, and in earnest. Whenever I've loved,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my… — John Britton Copy Share Image
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
“I will love you, I will honor you, I will give you my affections. I will walk with no other partner, and… — Annie Wald Copy Share Image
“Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end… — Brody Jenner Copy Share Image
“Wake up one morning with a man you had thought you'd spend your life with, and realize, a rock in your gut,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and less radical. It is humanly manageable to make decisions of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“As women, we are always taught never to let a man know of our affections towards him, lest he laugh, run away,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“My dear child,' said the old gentleman, moved by the warmth of Oliver's sudden appeal, 'you need not be afraid of my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
