Affinity Quotes

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.

— Jim Coleman

Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.

— Cormac McCarthy

Heaven? I don't have an affinity with that place.

— SebastiAn

“Perhaps I have a strange affinity for old books.”

— Renee Ahdieh

There can be little liking where there is no likeness.

— Aesop

I have an affinity for animals.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I have an affinity towards extremes.

— Davey Havok

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

— Jane Austen

My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

— Gloria Estefan

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

— Scott Bakula

Dissoluteness of youth, then get madness if someone becomes affinity

— Mak_786

Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.

— Al-Ghazali

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

— John Burnham Schwartz

Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.

— Louis Agassiz

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

— Bill Kurtis

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

— William James

You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to…

— George Rodger

Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at…

— Eugene Dubois

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and…

— Douglas McCulloh

Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection…

— Willard Scott

I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good…

— Jeff Fahey

I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society.…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded…

— Octavia Spencer

I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in…

— Larry Norman

Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and…

— Mark Feuerstein

Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with…

— Elena Ferrante

Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility…

— William Faulkner

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience…

— Virginia Woolf

Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and…

— Anthony Eden

I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each…

— Leonard Cohen

I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he…

— Kevin Barry

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and…

— Isaac Newton

“Anarchists and antiauthoritarians clearly differentiate between charity and solidarity--especially thanks to working with indigenous solidarity movements and other international solidarity movements--based on…

— M

This new force, which was unknown until now, is common to organic and inorganic nature. I do not believe that this is…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already…

— Lydia Davis

“You're not sure? Look at your own fingers. Are you not sure, if they are yours? Look at any part of you…

— Sarah Waters

“It sure if terrific to be in the back seat of a car full of all the people in your affinity group,…

— William T. Vollmann

One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities…

— Oswald Chambers

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