Affection Quotes

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Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like… — Emma Thompson
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on… — Alberto Manguel
She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy,… — Mark Twain
This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if Iâ€™d only ever experienced love and… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what… — Jane Austen
Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of… — Toni Morrison
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of… — Walter Scott
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your… — Orson Scott Card
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,… — Bertrand Russell
In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more… — John McCain
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.… — John O'Donohue
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He… — John Piper
She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. — Jane Austen
she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to… — Paulo Coelho
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thomas Jefferson asked himself â€œIn what country on earth would you rather live â€ He first answered â€œCertainly in my own where are all my… — Thomas Jefferson
Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance 2. Understanding 3. Appreciation Remove any one of the three and the… — Vera Nazarian
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the… — Jonathan Edwards

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