Affection Quotes

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My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want… — Khaled Hosseini
I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless. — Les Dawson
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. — Karl Abraham
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and… — David Hume
The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever. — Muhammad Iqbal
For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them groan… — Pope Pius XI
Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state. — Donna Leon
I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along… — David Sanborn
When I look at Jesus' warm and intimate friendships, my heart fills with praise that Jesus was. . . a man. A man of flesh-and-blood… — Joni Eareckson Tada
My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared… — Radhanath Swami
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed. — Alfred Armand Montapert
We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand, drawing me, leading… — Miguel de Unamuno
England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there. — Bob Hope
After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Displacement of any part of the skeletal frame may press against nerves, which are the channels of communication, intensifying or decreasing their carrying capacity, creating… — Daniel D. Palmer
Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile;… — John of Ruysbroeck
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to… — Algernon Sidney
Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned… — Kate Millett
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were… — Larry Kramer

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