Affections Quotes

273 quotes by 201 authors

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. — Victor Hugo
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers,… — David Hume
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. — Lee Iacocca
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. — John Keats
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one… — Max Lucado
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good. — Maria Mitchell
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. — Alexander Pope
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. — Adam Smith
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. — Logan Pearsall Smith
If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the… — Ellen G. White
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to… — George Washington
I never change, except in my affections. — Oscar Wilde
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, â€” What is truth?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining… — Thomas Paine
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair,… — Evelyn Waugh
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
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

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