Affection Quotes

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There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one… — Max Lucado
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible. — Wangari Maathai
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their… — Abraham Maslow
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it. — Andre Maurois
From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I… — Jon Meacham
Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order. — Cesar Millan
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good. — Maria Mitchell
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at… — Michel de Montaigne
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. — Thomas Moore
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be… — Edward R. Murrow
I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated… — Dick Van Patten
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. — Alexander Pope
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. — Marcel Proust
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. — Basil Rathbone
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when… — Samuel Richardson
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me. — Clara Schumann

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