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

To hold the power of affection and maintain the roots of love, you must stay trusted. — Auliq Ice

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish. — Arne Glimcher

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

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection. — Daniel Keyes

Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret. — Charles Darwin

When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection. — Francesc Ferrer I Guardia

Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source. — Melanie Rawn

I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment. — Robert A. Johnson

We can all benefit by learning to express and meet out physical needs in a loving, caressing and compassionate way — David Bresler

Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection? — L.M. Montgomery

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture
of affection, care, desire and expectation. — Munia Khan

You are poised to be the most perfect creature I have ever encountered, under God, and the affection that I feel for you cannot be measured on Earth — Amy A. Bartol

What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place. — Samuel

Is this what normal people do?" he asked. "Do they wake up every day next to someone they love and receive affection? — Sarah Noffke

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. — Jerry Spinelli

There is no power greater than true affection. — Seneca The Younger

The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The strange thing was that you felt such a great sense of affection, not for anything or for anyone, but the fullness of what may be called love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Say Say Say What you want But don't play games With my affection Take take take What you need But don't leave me With no direction — Michael Jackson

Looking back, I can see that one of the things my friends had to suffer out of affection for me was my optimism about weather, — Agatha Christie

He was overawed by her open, fearless affection. Was this why people liked friendship so much? — Nina George

The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year. — John Garamendi

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection. — Josiah Gilbert Holland

I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention. — Suzanne Collins

I have trained myself to pull away from all gestures of affection, because [my parents] raised me to take them seriously. — Veronica Roth

Set your affection to infinity and your hate to zero! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Well, if you don't want me to show you affection in public-"
"Do," he interrupted. "Please. Touch me. All the time. All ways. — Heather Crews

I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people. — Ken Starr

The Noblest form of Affection — Oscar Wilde

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences. — Damon Galgut

Expert advice on improving ur relationship -
4A's - attention,appreciation,
affection & attraction. — Nicholas Sparks

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

That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure. — Charlotte Bronte

Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

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. — Ina Garten

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection — Gautama Buddha

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection. — Dalai Lama

Troubles run.
Fast and far . . .
Past the mountains
Behind a star. — Byrd Baylor

The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything. — Deepak Chopra

Yet he had a certain charm of manner, and I fancied that, if one really knew him well, one could have a deep affection for him. — Agatha Christie

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them. — Joseph Addison

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing. — John Caudwell

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared — William Shakespeare

A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things. — Junot Diaz

To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table. — Brandon Sanderson

People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection, and they memorized my songs in Spanish. — Thalia

All I would ever ask of a wife," he murmured, "is that she would bear me some affection. That she might be happy to see me at the end of the day. — Lisa Kleypas

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

From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection. — Khalil Gibran

With the right kind of touch, sour apples turn sweet again. — Marty Rubin

My childhood lacked affection and ambience. — Jacqueline De Ribes

Show physical affection. Nothing says "I love you" like bearing the entirety of your spouse's weight. — Jesse Petersen

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place. — William Ralph Inge

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection. — Anna Magnani

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

My affection for Taiwan ... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese. — Jackie Chan

A woman's life is a history of the affections. — Washington Irving

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever. — Karl Lagerfeld

The way to my heart is through your heart. — Marty Rubin

I mean, how strange is that we bring plant sex organs to people we're attracted to? What's up with that? It's a weird sign of affection. — Richelle Mead

Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment. — Jeremy Collier

No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight. — Damon Galgut

She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last longer. — Aya Ling

To family, whether by blood or by affection. We'd all be lesser people without them. — Jeaniene Frost

Is I the insomniac's question?
Are you a dendrite or a dream?
Between oblivion and affection,
which one is fear and which protection? — Bruce Smith

We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection and dream of perfection. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Fortunately I did not need affection. — Samuel Beckett

Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection. — Amy Dickinson

Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many. — Norman Vincent Peale

It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection. — St. Jerome

her hand trembled, the ardour of his affection being so palpable that she seemed to flinch under it like a plant in too burning a sun. — Thomas Hardy

there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn." I — Daniel Keyes

I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for. — Michael B. Jordan

He had no affection left in his life - only the pitiful mockery of it in the camaraderie of vice. — Upton Sinclair

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers. — Byron Nelson

Love is the piety of the affections. — Theodore Parker

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of affection going up when it was in short supply — LaVyrle Spencer

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. — Elizabeth Gaskell

We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life. — Audrey Hepburn

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

My greatest hope is to be a mother who loves Jesus with a deep and abiding affection that joyfully overflows to my children. — Melissa B. Kruger

Maybe it's gratitude affection. — J.T. Dark

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing but death
Our affections can sever,
And till life's latest breath
Love shall bind us for ever. — James Gates Percival

Fortunately, she understood the difference between biological attraction and lasting affection. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce. — Mason Cooley

We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are. — Mary Baker Eddy

You can always spot the real thing, that affection; why does it always come from the wrong person? — Jess Walter

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude! — Georgette Heyer

It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible. — Libba Bray

I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection. — Victoria Holt

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

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. — John Wolcot

In the last 20, 22 years I have sung here very often and I have always felt the affection and warmth of the Italians, and I feel very close to you. — Jose Carreras