Affection Quotes - Page 12

When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

Love requited is a short circuit.

With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.

I'm seventy-six now. I'm at a stage in my life where I feel a lot of affection and regard for women, and I felt the need to make this clear in some way. I don't know how they'll feel when they read it, but I feel okay about it.

What is it between Obama and Iran? That's the question we all ought to have. Because it sure seems to me like Obama's got some sort of affection for that nation.

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

Personal relationships are often based on affection - professional relationships can have affection but they must have mutual understanding, trust and respect.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.

Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything!

When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!

Chastening is a mark of affection, not a sign of rejection.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.