Affection Quotes (211 Quotes)

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call hyou home Only the one who knows your name.

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.

Love is a part of the affective and it is sacred and the affective is love. The individual divinity of the human being, the one that man knows is not made of love alone but from all the other specific forms that the individual conscience can determine through its definition, and the social conscience at the social level. Divinity is the image that is expressed through affection, because there is neither will nor knowledge in the mans conscience, there is only their illusion. The divinity the man knows is the result of all these illusion, along with love, when true Divinity is the ultimate form of Love defined through Holiness.

Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.

We will all miss her terribly, because she was a wonderful human being in addition to being a great player. The affection is obvious the way everyone reacted to her loss. We can't believe she's gone. Losing any young person is the worst thing that can happen in life. We will be thinking of her throughout the season.

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

Most people would rather give than get affection.

I'm always taken aback by the affection that this area shows toward my father. I feel the affection too.

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

Affection doesn't know
How many leagues of nowhere
Lie between them now.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

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

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 human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.

He was my perfect alter ego. He was in control, and I never was. He was cool, and I was truly a nerd. I just played him out of affection.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

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

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

From a sensitive womans heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankinds affection.

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.

The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.

I really have an affection for York, ... It was the first place where my father came to see me play pro ball.

I wanted to be open. On the last project, Affection, I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.

Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influence in my life. He gave me much love and affection, and shortly after my first months of cello lessons, he was very encouraging. I remember him telling my father that some day my name would be up in lights.

Because of that search, ... we became a community. We shared our tears and affection. We now hold our children closer.

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.

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

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

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

There is no power greater than true affection.

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

It is just amazing how much she craves human companionship and affection. She has so much love to give when she herself has been given very little particularly over the last four months. It is pretty rough to be in the shelter all week and then paraded out for adoption days. She takes chances on humans over and over again, and is grateful for anything she gets in return.

It is great to see him again and the others who work with him and to feel the affection. You live for moments like this.

The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.

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

A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.

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.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career.

Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the right response, while others learned more quickly when the penalty for not learning was a painful stimulus.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

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

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

That trial is not fair where affection is judge.

He shows great potential, but he's not there yet. But they weren't 'there' after being in the public eye for as short a time as Clooney has. It takes a long time to be a Cary Grant, to win the affection of the world the way he did.

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.