Affords Quotes

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

Clarity affords focus.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

All we can do is play ball. Every time we go out on the field, we do what we do in America - live in the freedom that our country affords us.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.