Affection Quotes

1417 quotes by 966 authors

The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the… — Joseph Story
The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its… — George Washington
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights are the essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its… — James Madison
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections,… — Noah Webster
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is… — Lewis Thomas
Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness. — Dalai Lama
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at… — William Hazlitt
Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a… — Lewis H. Lapham
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth. — Arthur Rimbaud
In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the… — Thomas Jefferson
It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form… — Oscar Wilde
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds… — Vaclav Havel
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman's life is a history of the affections. — Washington Irving
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of… — Edmund Burke
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world. — Benjamin Disraeli
It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life,… — Albert Einstein
I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I donâ€™t care if people… — William S. Burroughs
That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her… — Joan Bennett

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