Affection Quotations

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

When affection only speaks, truth is not always there

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do....

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection

No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely in the middle of a revolution that will determine how people find, read, and experience stories.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy,

Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it's always smart to have a good plan up your sleeve for Valentine's Day.

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It's when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn't enough in a relationship - understanding and communication are very important aspects.

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

I know there's a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I'm all for that, too, and I appreciate it in alternative music, and I appreciate it in B-movies and in Sundance, independent films.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their affection for the president or - we don't have those problems and we don't have the reinvention convention.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.

Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.

What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.

I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.

Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, 'I'm not worthy,' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

I think, in our life I think that when you are an actor, when you are a producer, you have to be very discreet about your personal life, and you have to be closed in, in harmony and in affection and in everything.

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life; there's a deep respect for her role.

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.

The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

There's something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it's very much what I've always wanted to do. It's one of the most appealing things about comedy for me, so I do really have an affection for it.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

More consumers have more discretionary income. This is an occasion that brings out the inner child in us all. And Canadian consumers have shown a real affection for Halloween.

My secret campaign weapon is Rufus, whose 17 pounds of furry affection provides a playmate for the children of voters, giving mom and dad a few minutes to talk about their vision for the future.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

I wish the Sunshine Millions was here. He really has an affinity for this course.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Now that the LCD and plasma TVs have come into the marketplace, they're so much more affordable, roughly a third less than a year ago. The newer TVs are much more decor friendly, so you combine that with the natural sort of affection men have for big TVs during the Super Bowl, and there's a lot of activity out there.

Richard Nixon never raised a hand to Mrs. Nixon, ... Their affection and respect for one another is well known to all who knew them. It is inconceivable that he would have struck her for any reason. No family member or close friend has ever reported witnessing such behavior. The book contains no evidence, only rumor and second- and third-hand hearsay by the dead.

If they're not affectionate when they first come here, after being introduced to a horse they learn affection and empathy.

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 bond of human affections is extended and loosened.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!