Affectionate Quotes - Page 5

• The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Nice, Ideas

  Taxes and Morals, delivered 22 January 1906, New York

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• Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Writing, Long, Answers

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• We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

  Artemas Ward

  Oil And Water, Enemy, Wish

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• What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

  Abigail Adams

  Family, Wise, Children

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• I am open to keep on discovering new interesting projects, and little by little I have been coming across very beautiful projects with very affectionate directors.

  Alfonso Herrera

  Beautiful, Interesting, Directors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named after gods-Loki and Athena, who are, respectively, absolutely straightforward and affectionate, and dumber than dirt. I learned my lesson. I will name my next cat 'Satan' or 'Marduk' or something, thereby ensuring a kind, gentle beast who treats my upholstery like a shrine.

  Ursula Vernon

  Cat, Names, Lessons

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• It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends.  The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Sex, Celibacy, Found

  Mary Doria Russell (2010). “The Sparrow”, p.201, Random House

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• Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.

  George Eliot

  New Year, Witty, Blessing

  George Eliot (1898). “Works: George Eliot's life”

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• One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Soul, Influence, Members

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• A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

  Randall Jarrell

  Kissing, Gertrude, Answers

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

  Michael De Luca

  Mom, Mother, Father

  "The Confessions of Mike De Luca" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

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• "Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Believe, Eye

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.162

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• One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.

  Willa Cather

  Children, Husband, Grandmother

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.136, U of Nebraska Press

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• Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision. Liberal Arts is the best movie about college I’ve seen since I don’t know what...Dryly affectionate and super-sharp. Elizabeth Olsen is every inch a star.

  Owen Gleiberman

  Art, Stars, College

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• Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.

  Je Tsongkhapa

  Love, Sympathy, Religious

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• My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.

  Annalena McAfee

  Feelings, Newspapers

  "Annalena McAfee: 'I see myself as a recovering journalist'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.

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• In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have said nothing to make me more proud; every Chick was needed before the end.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Fighting, Air Power, Proud

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• Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Art, Husband

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• I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Important, Doe

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Power of Compassion: A Collection of Lectures”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

  William Cowper

  Simple, Men, Grace

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.556

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• Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.

  Robertson Davies

  Class, People, Mind

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

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• The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

  J. B. Priestley

  Heart, Shy, Facts

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• Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated.

  David Attenborough

  Beautiful, Reptiles, Dull

  "Life in Cold Blood". Documentary, 2008.

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• It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus.

  Brother Lawrence

  Jesus, Humble, Paradise

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• Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to become king, have not been on the best of terms with the sovereign to whose death they look forward with a debilitating combination of guilt-ridden anxiety and eager anticipation. And younger sons (and daughters, too) have often found their lives empty of purpose: cut off by their royal statius, but unable to find anything rewarding with which to fill the time.

  David Cannadine

  Daughter, Kings, Son

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