Affection Quotes

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

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 married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

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.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

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.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.