Affection Quotes

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We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to… — Alain de Botton
You must realize that the true desire to express affection can be motivated by things other than true love.... In short, one might simply say:… — Bruce C. Hafen
...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love. — Nora Roberts
With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not,… — S.J. Watson
Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their… — John Donne
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and… — Thomas Hardy
When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another.… — Graham Greene
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit… — Fulton J. Sheen
Womenâ€™s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering… — Waris Dirie
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from… — Jane Austen
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality — Mahatma Gandhi
I have been seized by the power of a great affection. — Brennan Manning
Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent… — Jonathan Safran Foer
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down. — Honore de Balzac
I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with… — Maggie Stiefvater
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect â€” don't have anything to do with them. Do… — Ambrose Bierce
I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came… — William Goldman
what if it was enough to just stand here in the arms of someone who ared about her, to let his simple affection steady her… — Lauren Kate

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