Affinity Quotes - Page 8

• India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.

  John Gimlette

  Strong, Father, Blood

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, Unique, Law

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• The first measn by which He draws is affinity, that affinity which brings creatures of the same species together, and like to its like. With this cord of affinity He drew men to the Godhead, Whom He always resembles. In order that God may draw more to Himself, and forget His wrath.

  Meister Eckhart

  Men, Wrath, Order

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.

  Elena Ferrante

  Real, Envy, Feelings

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.304, Penguin

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• We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, School, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.451, Modern Library

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• I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

  Richard LaGravenese

  Journey, Men, Interesting

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• There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Judging, Easy, Persons

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1522, Delphi Classics

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• Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature.

  Robert Wright

  Technology, Numbers, Giving

  Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.37, Vintage

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• I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

  T. J. Miller

  Girl, Strong, Fun

  "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I remember Massimo [Pupillo] sending me an email from Tibet saying he was up in a cave somewhere, being very still. We found we had lots of shared affinities that we'd never really talked about before.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Email, Caves, Remember

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Sea, Special, Landscape

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Anarchists should get together who agree, and develop their gifts at a critical point, in a critical place, and form genuine affinity groups in areas where they can have certain results, notable results - not move into areas of great resistance where they're almost certain to be crushed, defeated, demoralized.

  Murray Bookchin

  Moving, Together, Resistance

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  Loyalty, Firsts, Morality

  FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Oct 12, 2012

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• Despite 18 years as a non-partisan public servant, my deeper "tribal" affinity has always been Tory. The Afghanistan file has given me an additional reason to cleave to that side of the spectrum. Canadian Conservatives have generally been more comfortable and confident with hard security issues.

  Chris Alexander

  Years, Issues, Sides

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.

  David E. Cooper

  Together, Kind, Fit

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If we get to a point where people in this country feel more affinity with a leader who is an adversary and view the United States and our way of life as a threat to him, then we're gonna have bigger problems than just cyber hacking.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Views, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ethics, Morality, Shock

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.303

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• Even if you have money, access to MoCap technology, and strong choreographic and computer-animation abilities, don't try to make a film like this if you don't have a lot of patience, perseverance and a deep affinity for risk-taking.

  Martine Epoque

  Perseverance, Strong, Technology

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural potency and an unmatched affinity. He is a unique stylist in our music.

  Oscar Peterson

  Sweet, Stress, Unique

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• I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.

  Frantz Fanon

  Song, Heart, Intelligent

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.27, Grove Press

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• For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything chosen about them.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Cancer, Israel

  "Childish Superstition: Einstein's Letter Makes View of Religion Relatively Clear" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2008.

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• I never do the dishes, because my husband has an affinity for it. And I'm also not allowed to touch the coffeemaker.

  Rachael Ray

  Husband, My Husband, Dishes

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• Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

  P. D. James

  Personality, Doe, Resemblance

  P.D. James (2012). “Death of an Expert Witness”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Betrayal, Sleep

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• The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.

  Dario Argento

  Writing, Insanity, Want

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

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