Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“You know what way, Wadsworth. I refuse to believe you’ve misinterpreted my affections. I am wholly in love with you. And it… — Hunting Prince Dracula, Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the… — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections, as leaves are to the life of… — Gaby Copy Share Image
“Grant that, by purity of life, we may repair the past; that, by the fervor of our affections, we may return Thy… — Peter J. Arnoudt 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
“As I turned all of my affections toward Him, quickly every pavilion became a picture of the refuge of His person. Every… — Eric Gimour 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
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
“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'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
“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
However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“My affections truly were not engaged. It is only my pride that is hurt, not my heart.” — Anna Elliott 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
“It was one of those unclassified affections of which there are so many.” — Virginia Woolf 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
“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
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
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
And I realize just how beautiful you are to me and how great you affections are for me~Jesus(: — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
