Affectionate Quotes - Page 7

• The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.

  Agatha Christie

  Girl, Men, Missing

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Thirteen at Dinner”, Berkley

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• The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.

  Lorrie Moore

  Farce, Lack Of Love, Way

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Who Will Run the Frog Hospital”, p.4, Vintage

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• Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Home, Looks, Kind

  Patrick O'Brian (1991). “H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people.

  Doug Flutie

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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• In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Children

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• The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity.

  James W. Prescott

  Society, Degrees, Variables

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• Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.

  Will Cuppy

  Science, Owning A Pet, Adorable

  "How to Get from January to December". Book by Will Cuppy, 1951.

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• We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Love, Men, Want Something

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

  Philippe Pinel

  Husband, Giving, Romance

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• The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Art, Profound

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• In general, an ideal partner is (a) open and nondefensive, (b) honest and nonduplicitous, (c) affectionate and easy-going, (d) mentally and physically healthy, (e) independent and successful in his or her chosen career or lifestyle, and (f) aware of a meaningful existence that includes humanitarian values.

  Robert W. Firestone

  Meaningful, Independent, Successful

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• In God's eyes, all creatures have value whether we find them cuddly, affectionate, beautiful or otherwise. Our own perspective-in a way-is neither here nor there. Theology, at its best, can help to liberate us from our own anthropocentric limitations.

  Andrew Linzey

  Beautiful, Nature, Eye

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• You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wise, Thinking, Woven

  "Q&A: Jon Kabat-Zinn Talks About Bringing Mindfulness Meditation to Medicine". Interview With Maia Szalavitz, healthland.time.com. January 11, 2012.

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• Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

  Walt Whitman

  Sweet, Horse, Soul

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, III”

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• Humans can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet they're potentially more vicious than any other. They are the only ones who can be persuaded to hate millions of their own kind whom they have never seen and to kill as many as they can lay their hands on in the name of their tribe or their God.

  Benjamin Spock

  Hate, Hands, Names

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• Comic-Con fans are so affectionate, and it's always a lovely way to start a new season.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Lovely, Fans, Way

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

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• I'm an affectionate person.

  Zara Phillips

  Persons

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• We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Style, Mind, Ornaments

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• My personal view is very simple: What happens in your bedroom, it's up to you. If you want to use gay marriage as an affectionate kind of thing you're doing, do it.

  Marion Barry

  Gay, Simple, Views

  Source: www.slate.com

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• If you are remembering evil against someone, then pray for him; and as you remove through prayer the pain of the remembrance of the evil he has done, you will stop the advance of the passion. And when you have attained brotherly love and love for mankind, you will completely cast this passion out of your soul. Then when someone else does evil to you, be affectionate and humble toward him, and treat him kindly, and you will deliver him from this passion.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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