Affection Quotes - Page 23

• Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

  Napoleon Hill

  Heart, Criticism, Resentment

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.201, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

  Patricia Highsmith

  Mother, Humor, Elegance

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• No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.

  Richard Sibbes

  Mother, Father, Mercy Of God

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• The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

  "On the revolutions".

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• There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Stupidity, Inability

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• The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Sympathy, Gossip, Grace

  Elizabeth Drew (1964). “The Literature of Gossip”

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• Entire affection hateth nicer hands.

  Edmund Spenser

  Jealous, Hands

  Edmund Spenser (1805). “The Works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.62

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• In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart-in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Faith, Fall, Believe

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• The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strong, Heart, Tree

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Wine, Soul

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• From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

  Khalil Gibran

  Happiness, Kindness, Spring

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.

  Orson Scott Card

  Sex, Couple, Men

  "Lionsgate Responds to Outcry over ENDER’S GAME Author Orson Scott Card’s Anti-Gay Comments" by Dave Trumbore, collider.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Man in his raw, natural state as he comes from the womb is morally and spiritually corrupt in disposition and character. Every part of his being-his mind, his will, his emotions, his affections, his conscience, his body-has been affected by sin (this is what is meant by the doctrine of total depravity)

  Robert L. Reymond

  Character, Men, Mind

  Robert L. Reymond (2010). “A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith: 2nd Edition - Revised and Updated”, p.240, Thomas Nelson

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• Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity

  Henry Clarence Thiessen

  Men, Evil, Want

  Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.191, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love You, Simple, Loving Yourself

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• Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Kindness, Animal

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• If you’d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you’d be better off accidentally than you’ve ever been on purpose!

  Andrew Wommack

  Purpose, Lord, Better Off

  Andrew Wommack (2007). “A Better Way to Pray: If Your Prayer Life is Not Working, Consider Changing Directions”, p.98, Harrison House Publishers

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• 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.

  Joost Meerloo

  Pain, Learning, Animal

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• Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Passion, First Love

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.184

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• In life, there are no perfect affections.

  James Merrill

  Life, Perfect, Inspire

  James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf

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• We do not seek the unanimity that comes to those who water down all issues to the lowest common denominator - or to those who conceal their differences behind fixed smiles - or to those who measure unity by standards of popularity and affection, instead of trust and respect. We are allies. This is a partnership, not an empire. We are bound to have differences and disappointments - and we are equally bound to bring them out into the open, to settle them where they can be settled, and to respect each other's views when they cannot be settled.

  John F. Kennedy

  Disappointment, Differences, Issues

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Art, Born, Humans

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.

  Benjamin Barber

  Life, Imagination, Tolerance

  Benjamin R. Barber (2000). “A Passion for Democracy: American Essays”, p.221, Princeton University Press

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• Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them without my mind pressing against theirs, or arguing or changing the subject. No. My attitude is: "Tell me more. This person is showing me his soul. It is a little dry and meager and full of grinding talk just now, but presently he will begin to think, not just automatically to talk. He will show his true self. Then he will be wonderfully alive."

  Brenda Ueland

  Attitude, Party, Thinking

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

  Matthew Simpson

  Heart, Ideas, Age

  Matthew Simpson (1865). “Funeral Address Delivered at the Burial of President Lincoln: At Springfield, Illinois, May 4, 1865”, p.6

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