Affinity Quotes

• When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Real, Elderly, Lasts

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• There can be little liking where there is no likeness.

  Aesop

  Littles

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.39

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• It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

  George Santayana

  Great Bond, Dislike

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, MIT Press

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• Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.

  Herman Cain

  Men, America, Black

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• I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

  Ludacris

  Passion, Car, Culture

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• I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Play, Balls

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

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• I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.

  Kidada Jones

  Princess

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• Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Drama, Party

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.112, Penguin

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• In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

  Guillaume Canet

  People, Groups, Tension

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• Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

  Carl Sagan

  Sky, Tree, Lovely

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• I've always had an affinity for growing things.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Growing, Growing Things

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• Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity.

  Jean Sibelius

  Swans, Years, Reincarnation

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• The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Book, Ideas, History

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• Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

  William Ralph Inge

  Risk, Elements, Venture

  William Ralph Inge (1910). “Faith and Its Psychology”

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• Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

  Terry Southern

  Long, People, Beard

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• There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

  William James

  Companionship, Tenderness

  William James (2004). “The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.280, Library of Alexandria

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• Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

  Louis Kahn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  ":The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building:Redefining the Practice of Sustainability". Book by Bill Reed (p. 216), October 11, 2011.

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• The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more or less numerous, simple or complex in composition, and in the constitution of the materials, they play the same role as Mars and Venus do in our planetary system, or the compound members such as our earth with its moon, or Jupiter with its satellites... If in such a system a particle is replaced by one of different character, the equilibrium can persist, and then the new compound will exhibit properties similar to those shown by the original substance.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Character, Moon, Simple

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• To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Independent, Men

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• I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.

  John Jakes

  Jobs, Believe, Book

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• I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.

  Guy Pearce

  Cat, Thinking, Way

  "Portrait of the artist" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2007.

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• Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

  William Hazlitt

  Betrayal, Secret, Violent

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1179, Delphi Classics

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• My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.

  David Crosby

  Song, Father, Writing

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• Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

  Paddy Ashdown

  People, Criticism, Hurtful

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• Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Sri Lanka, Perfect

  "The Foundations of Indian Culture". Book by Sri Aurobindo, 1953.

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