Affection Quotes

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel.

You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.

While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

There's something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

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.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.