The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
It's incredible to be working with Mr Armani and his team at Emporio Armani. I feel an affinity to the brand ethos… — Calvin Harris Copy Share Image
'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be… — Ron Luciano Copy Share Image
I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes. — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Anarchists should get together who agree, and develop their gifts at a critical point, in a critical place, and form genuine affinity… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like… — Doug E. Fresh Copy Share Image
Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your… — Egon Friedell Copy Share Image
The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may… — Jean-Baptiste Dumas Copy Share Image
I am certainly open to the idea that this might be used to explain other philosophical categories besides knowledge. I have some… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“There seemed something rather devotional about her pose, the stillness, so that I thought at last, She is praying!, and made to… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all.… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection… — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at… — Eugene Dubois Copy Share Image
You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to… — George Rodger Copy Share Image
Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either… — Christopher Kelk Ingold Copy Share Image
I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl… — T. J. Miller Copy Share Image
Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is apparent that only a certain kind of person will want to make ethnographic films, It will, above all, be those… — Robert Gardner Copy Share Image
My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
For people to even be interested and to reach out and say "I can't wait for you to come out with something",… — Tiffany Villarreal Copy Share Image
The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our… — Dhammananda Bhikkhuni Copy Share Image
Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great… — Adhir Kalyan Copy Share Image
Despite 18 years as a non-partisan public servant, my deeper "tribal" affinity has always been Tory. The Afghanistan file has given me… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
