Affection Quotes

1417 quotes by 966 authors

Friends, genuine friends, are attracted by a warm heart, not money, not power. A genuine friend considers you as just another human being, as a… — Dalai Lama
What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place. — Samuel
And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the… — Socrates
To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that… — Wendell Berry
Why can men no longer be best friends? This is so stupid. Today if you show two guys being best friends they end up giving… — Henry Cavill
From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they donâ€™t have to face. They are not… — Manu Joseph
Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having. — Ashley Purdy
She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared — William Shakespeare
By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give… — Wayne Dyer
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property. — William Blackstone
Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not… — Mother Teresa
All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God. — C. J. Mahaney
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous… — Norman MacCaig
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably… — Charles Dickens
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to… — Xunzi
At this time I choseas friends two little girls of my own age; but how shallow are the hearts of creatures! Oneof them had to… — Therese of Lisieux
And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels… — Philip Pullman
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering what had happened… — Richard Brautigan
His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse and… — Rudyard Kipling

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