Affection Quotes - Page 27

• I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Understood, Confined

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

  B. C. Forbes

  Friendship, Loyalty, True Friend

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• Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Love, Loyalty, Grateful

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• Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Love You

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• To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.80, Counterpoint Press

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• It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is because others are starving. Creation is good. But the one who gave us this gorgeous token of his affection has asked us to share it with our sisters and brothers.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Christian, Brother, Clothes

  Ronald J. Sider (2015). “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity”, p.107, Thomas Nelson

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• All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

  Matthew Henry

  Done, Firsts, Obedience

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible commentary - Gospel of Matthew”, p.873, Bible Study Books

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• There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Appreciated, Lost, Recollection

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3998, Delphi Classics

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• There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Moving, Understanding, Literature

  Thomas De Quincey (1873). “Leaders in literature”, p.5

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• Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  World, Remember, Console

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• The more merit, the less affection.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Merit

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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• Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.

  Willa Cather

  Fate, People, Feelings

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.27, Vintage

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• Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

  William Shakespeare

  Letters, Heirs, Firsts

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth”, p.320, Bantam Classics

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• Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Wonder

  Plato, Henry Cary, Rev. Henry Davis (M.A.), George Burges (1848). “The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis”, p.385

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• The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

  Aristotle

  Soul, Impression, Symbols

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• The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Parent, Modesty, Youth

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• The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

  Henry Fielding

  Coquette, Coquetry, Characteristics

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• I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 182, 1982.

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• Nothing really affected me until Elvis.

  John Lennon

  Affected

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• There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

  Maria Montessori

  Work, Substitutes, Well Being

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• I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.

  Norman Mailer

  Freedom, Feelings, Intellectual

  "Mailer Tells a Lot. Not All, but a Lot.; His Longest Love Affair Is With the U.S." by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 2000.

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• One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.

  Freya Stark

  Moving, Believe, Thinking

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• The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Powerful, Law, Denial

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• Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

  Demosthenes

  Self, Deceit, Deceiving

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• All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

  Thomas Sprat

  Men, Practice, Deceit

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