Affinity Quotes
159 quotes by 145 authors
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I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want…
— Mary Ellen Mark
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Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?
— Benjamin Disraeli
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No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so…
— Ron Luciano
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When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office,…
— Granville Sharp
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In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron,…
— Elizabeth Spires
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Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.
— Carol Ann Tomlinson
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Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on.
— Phil Pringle
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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.
— Carl Sagan
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There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.
— William James
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At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however…
— C.S. Lewis
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There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship…
— Bob Menendez
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Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.
— Louis Agassiz
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Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect…
— William Faulkner
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I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.
— Larry Norman
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Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and nucleophilic (nucleus-seeking) are…
— Christopher Kelk Ingold
Who Wrote These Affinity Quotes
145 authors contributed a total of 159 Affinity Quotes, led by these top contributors: