Affection Quotes - Page 11

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.

I'm very fond of piano players.

I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.

…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.

It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody.

Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.

If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in the whole course of their lives, in their manner of using the world, because it can have no place anywhere else.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.

The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.

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

Love is the piety of the affections.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

There is no power greater than true affection.