While my mother lived, I always felt to a certain degree as if I had somebody who was my superior and who exercised a mysterious protection over me. I belonged to something – I hung to something – there is nothing that has so much reverence and religion in it as affection to parents.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
I’ve always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen’s been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia’s sort of national life; there’s a deep respect for her role.
I felt bad for Newcastle when they lost their 2005 FA Cup semi-final to Manchester United. They had loaned me out to Celtic, but I still had a lot of affection for them.
I have always taken pleasure from the affection I received from Banfield fans everytime I have returned here, but I will not close my career with them.
I don’t understand women who don’t encourage each other. I think compliments and showing affection are really important, too. Women don’t do that enough, and it’s so essential because even if you’re shy about giving a compliment, it’s good energy; it’s uplifting.
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone’s shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.
I’m lucky to have met Nicolas Ghesquiere, the creative director of Vuitton. He understands me and knows me, and I admire his sensibility and talent. Karl Lagerfeld is another huge designer and artist for whom I feel affection and admiration.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
David and I were divorced in 1980, and there has been silence between us ever since. Despite our decade of marriage and a child together, I was airbrushed out of his life. He never demonstrated any affection or gratitude after we parted. He fired anyone who mentioned my name.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
India means everything to me. It is my homeland. India is my country. It is here that I have gotten love and affection as a film star from millions and millions of my fans over the last five decades.
From the beginning to the end of a drama, it’s most important that I’m focused on the project that I’m responsible for and feel affection towards it. Then I get faith that the project will end up being good before getting fully engaged in it.
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
I am in the representational business, a portraitist. I have tried to walk an amused line amid hyperbole, documentary detail, cruel characterisation, occasional affection, some good punchlines and anthropological social insight. It’s been a good living.
I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
There is always speculation about me and Palmeiras, precisely because of the affection I have for the team and I have made it clear I identify with Palmeiras.
In life, there are no perfect affections.
When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love’s conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
I am overwhelmed with the love and affection of the people. Girls have written letters calling me their inspiration, which has touched my heart.
If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom’s affection, it just never goes away.
I would like to thank all Neapolitan fans for the affection and warmth that I have felt.
My parents’ selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
He makes a great mistake… who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there’s nobody there. To feel like you can’t go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
Guru Nanak Dev ji’s life and teachings give a message of affection, compassion and brotherhood for the entire humanity.
Naples has given me so much, and that is why I am so happy here. The warmth and affection of the fans have given me extra confidence. I have a great deal of love for them and for this city.
I believe the Australian people have an affection for the Queen, and so they should have.
I need specifically love, affection, people to touch me all the time. Because otherwise, I don’t really – I don’t cope very well. On ‘Morgan,’ everything is shot from the other side of the glass, so I was alone in a soundproof room watching everybody but being completely separate from whatever was going on.
Politics should be done by earning love and affection and by winning the hearts.
Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.
I am not after any award. Love and affection of the audience is the biggest award for me.
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.
But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that’s just love and affection- then you’re going to go after animals who need you.
It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.
When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I’m a little guarded and hardened to that.
From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We’ll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.
I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That’s very rare.
I have had relationships that have not worked out in the past, my marriage didn’t work out technically in the past but I look back at all my relationships with great love and affection.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
