Affection Quotes - Page 8

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

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

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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.

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.

My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

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

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.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

I think if you're Red Sox, well, it's something you're born with, and affection you have.

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

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

A hug is like a strangle you haven't finished yet.

Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

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.