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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• 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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• 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 have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.

  Kidada Jones

  Princess

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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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• 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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• I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  House, Wish, Chemicals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.7, Harvard University Press

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• The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

  Dee Hock

  Law, Income, Substance

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• Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Love, Spiritual, Years

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• It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Spiritual, Emotional

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

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• You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.

  Liev Schreiber

  Drs, Knows

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• People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.

  William Shatner

  Father, Writing, Symphony

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Together, Facts

  "Activation of Energy: Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1976.

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• There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

  William James

  Needs, Way, Companionship

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.269, Booklassic

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• The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our affinity with all who share the gift of life. A compassionate heart provides a firm ground for this precept.

  Dhammananda Bhikkhuni

  Buddhist, Heart, Buddhism

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• I think Trump's affinity for Netanyahu is part of the fact that he is most comfortable with fellow bullies. He is setting up a worldwide club of ruling bullies.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Thinking, Bully, Clubs

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.

  Joseph Jarman

  Growing Up, Years, People

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• There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.

  Bob Menendez

  Strong, Opportunity, Israel

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• I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

  Hugo Weaving

  Play, People, Weaving

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• In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

  Humphry Davy

  Matter, Causes, Energy

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