Affection Quotes

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I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character… — Philip Pullman
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would… — Bernhard Schlink
True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry. — Libba Bray
Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out;… — Thomas Aquinas
That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them… — George Bernard Shaw
Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond… — Richard Brautigan
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. — Mary Wollstonecraft
The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger. — Dalai Lama
Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different.… — Emily Giffin
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. — Lawrence Durrell
Hey Nana, If Cinderella's glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way? I can't help but think that it… — Ai Yazawa
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me. — William Shakespeare
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and… — E. M. Forster
A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns… — C.S. Lewis
Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all… — Emily Bronte
I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and… — Charles Dickens
Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. — Fernando Pessoa
To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast. — Max Lucado

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