Affection Quotes - Page 35

• Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Retirement, Cheer, Character

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• Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

  Robert Frost

  Craving, Overpowering

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• Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.

  Eliza Haywood

  Vanity, Admirer, Share

  Eliza Haywood (2004). “Fantomina and Other Works”, p.198, Broadview Press

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• Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given us by the Holy Ghost in the Scripture, do feign unto themselves false representations of him by images and pictures, so as to excite carnal and corrupt affections in their minds. By the help of their outward senses, they reflect on their imaginations the shape of a human body, cast into postures and circumstances dolorous or triumphant; and so, by the working of their fancy, raise a commotion of mind in themselves, which they suppose to be love unto Christ.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Imagination, Mind

  John Owen (2001). “The Person of Christ”, p.159, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• He only is great at heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career. And he is greatest who does the most of all these things and does them best.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Heart, Greatness, Careers

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• There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

  William Jenkyn

  Prayer, Our Prayers

  William Jenkyn, James Sherman (1839). “An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London”, p.343

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• A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Morning, Sacrifice, Night

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• It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Angel, Home, Sorrow

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• Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.

  Iris Origo

  Sunset, Opportunity, Office

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• Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.

  Amy Dickinson

  Friends, Reflection, Doors

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• it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are, to provide food, shelter, protection, advice and discipline, day in and day out, they can afford to be much more easy-going. The unexpected present, the extra outing, the little treat of a favourite meal prepared especially to delight the child and, above all, the time to listen to youthful outpourings, all make a grandmother a loved ally. It is hardly surprising that the bond between grandmother and grandchild is often stronger than that between parent and child.

  Miss Read

  Children, Grandmother, Discipline

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• Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Mother, Children, Father

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• My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did.

  Nadya Suleman

  Mom, And Love, Knows

  "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.

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• On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so on, that will compel the reader to continue reading - that stand a chance of really grabbing a reader - the writer has to work out of a place of, let's say, familiarity and affection. The matrix of the story has to be made out of stuff the writer really knows about and likes. The writer can't be stretching and (purely) inventing all the time. Well, I can't, anyway.

  George Saunders

  Reading, Work Out, Phrases

  Source: und.edu

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• As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.

  George A. Romero

  Ideas, Mixing, Different

  Source: techland.time.com

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• To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

  Fanny Burney

  Loneliness, Heart, Solitude

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.528, Delphi Classics

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• Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Real, Taste, Littles

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.132

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• The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down the street and so out and out and out and out into the world which becomes the home wherein charity begins until it becomes possible, in theory at least, to love the whole of creation with the same patience, affection, and amusement one first practiced, in between the pouts and tantrums, with parents, siblings, spouse, and children.

  Nancy Mairs

  Children, Sibling, Home

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• Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory.

  Jo Coudert

  Being In Love, Love Is, And Love

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• Morale is a little bit dimmed, is a bit affected by the redundancy program. That program had been planned for quite some time, and when I took over it was really left to me to make the final decision and it clearly was the right thing to do for the business.

  David Edward Kirk

  Decision, Finals, Littles

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• We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Family, Sake, Taste

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.206

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• A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Men, Generosity, His Love

  Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone

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• It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Mind, Religion

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• Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Universal, Compatible

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• Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

  Aime Martin

  Country, Law, Giving

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