Affection Quotes - Page 7

• Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love, Philosophical, Romance

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• I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

  Clara Schumann

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• 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.

  Shakira

  Respect, Team, Love You

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• And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Grief, Heart, Echoes

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm very fond of drugs.

  Grace Slick

  Drug

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• The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

  Richard Steele

  Marriage, Wedding, Heaven

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1841). “The Spectator: with sketches of the lives of the authors, an index, and explanatory notes”

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• We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, Ailments

  'Journal to Stella' (published in 'Works', 1768) 1 February 1711

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• The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.

  Donatella Versace

  Dog, Morning, Simple

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

  Voltaire

  Truth, Martyrdom

  Letter to Jean le Rond d'Alembert, February 08, 1776.

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• I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

  Ethel Waters

  Want, Tenderness

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• My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• 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.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Fashion, World, Designer

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• If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.

  Ellen G. White

  Heart, Soul, Mind

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• I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Persons, Suspicious

  Church and Home (published by United Methodist Church, and Evangelical United Brethren Church), Volume 1, p. 21, 1964.

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• My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Healthy, Tense, Confrontation

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• Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sweet, Thumbs, Keyboards

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• I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Receiving Love, Wife

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• She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations.

  John Irving

  Children, Expectations, Attention

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• Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?

  Viggo Mortensen

  Hands, Expectations, Understanding

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• I never change, except in my affections.

  Oscar Wilde

  Never Change

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.149

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• So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Ideas, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• [S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Hypocrisy, Shining

  Martin Chuzzlewit ch. 8 (1844)

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• I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Selfless, World

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.98, Anchor

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• I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Views, Soul

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

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• She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Running, Flower, Radiance

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