Affection Quotes

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I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last… — Fernando Pessoa
A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing really affected me until Elvis. — John Lennon
One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself. — Sigmund Freud
There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it. — Maria Montessori
I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right… — Norman Mailer
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going… — Freya Stark
The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders. — Demosthenes
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth — John Ford
All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of… — Thomas Sprat
Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. — Joanna Baillie
Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail. — Robert Lloyd
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. — Margaret Halsey
Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers. — Byron Nelson
The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection. — Lactantius
Thank you from the heart to all those who in various ways are near me or follow me spiritually with affection and prayers from afar.… — Pope Benedict XVI
I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my esteem and affection… — Romulus Linney
The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment. — Robert A. Johnson
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master… — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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