Affection Quotes - Page 15

• Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Children, Knees, Way

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Independence, Principles, United States

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.7

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• Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that
  Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens
  to cultivate a spirit of subordination and
  obedience to government; to entertain a
  brotherly affection and love for one another and
  for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large.

  George Washington

  Prayer, Heart, Government

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• Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it. A photographer down on his or her knees picturing a dog has found pleasure enough to make many things possible.

  Robert Adams

  Dog, Art, Knees

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that

  Princess Diana

  Believe, Needs, I Believe

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• Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

  Philip Roth

  War, Subordination

  Philip Roth (2001). “The Dying Animal”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we are children, we have a tranquil acceptance of mystery which is driven out of us later on, by curiosity and education and experience. But it is possible to find one's way back. With affection and respect, I disagree totally with Penelope Lively's conviction about the 'absolute impossibility of recovering a child's vision.' There _are_ ways, imperfect, partial, fleeting, of looking again at a mystery through the eyes we used to have. Children are not different animals. They are us, not yet wearing our heavy jacket of time.

  Susan Cooper

  Children, Eye, Acceptance

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• Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

  Napoleon Hill

  Heart, Criticism, Resentment

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.201, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

  Patricia Highsmith

  Mother, Humor, Elegance

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• No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.

  Richard Sibbes

  Mother, Father, Mercy Of God

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• The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

  "On the revolutions".

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• There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Stupidity, Inability

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• The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Sympathy, Gossip, Grace

  Elizabeth Drew (1964). “The Literature of Gossip”

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• Entire affection hateth nicer hands.

  Edmund Spenser

  Jealous, Hands

  Edmund Spenser (1805). “The Works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.62

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• In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart-in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Faith, Fall, Believe

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• The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strong, Heart, Tree

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

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• Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Wine, Soul

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• From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

  Khalil Gibran

  Happiness, Kindness, Spring

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.

  Orson Scott Card

  Sex, Couple, Men

  "Lionsgate Responds to Outcry over ENDER’S GAME Author Orson Scott Card’s Anti-Gay Comments" by Dave Trumbore, collider.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Man in his raw, natural state as he comes from the womb is morally and spiritually corrupt in disposition and character. Every part of his being-his mind, his will, his emotions, his affections, his conscience, his body-has been affected by sin (this is what is meant by the doctrine of total depravity)

  Robert L. Reymond

  Character, Men, Mind

  Robert L. Reymond (2010). “A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith: 2nd Edition - Revised and Updated”, p.240, Thomas Nelson

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• Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity

  Henry Clarence Thiessen

  Men, Evil, Want

  Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.191, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love You, Simple, Loving Yourself

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• Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Kindness, Animal

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• If you’d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you’d be better off accidentally than you’ve ever been on purpose!

  Andrew Wommack

  Purpose, Lord, Better Off

  Andrew Wommack (2007). “A Better Way to Pray: If Your Prayer Life is Not Working, Consider Changing Directions”, p.98, Harrison House Publishers

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• Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the right response, while others learned more quickly when the penalty for not learning was a painful stimulus.

  Joost Meerloo

  Pain, Learning, Animal

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