Affection Quotes

1417 quotes by 966 authors

What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of… — Hannah Whitall Smith
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not… — John Keats
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likely to impede… — Ted Simon
Authentic men aren't afraid to show affection, release their feelings, hug their children, cry when they're sad, admit it when they're wrong, and ask for… — Charles R. Swindoll
In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply… — George R. R. Martin
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along.… — Lewis Thomas
Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and… — Robert Adams
To me, he was the grand master of wine. He was a forceful Russian and a gentle person. The greats of wine all over the… — Margrit Mondavi
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people… — Thomas Huxley
When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we… — Dalai Lama
Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as… — Benjamin Jowett
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them. — John M. Gottman
Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway.… — Peter Ustinov
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle,… — Jeff Cooper
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. — James Martineau
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of… — Marcus Aurelius
Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others which is… — Karl Rahner
The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be… — George Washington

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