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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

A pleasurable and excited state of mind, associated with affection, is exhibited by some dogs in a very peculiar manner, namely, by grinning. — Charles Darwin

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

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is. — Charles Dickens

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

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

they had merely acquired
a shared affection for funerals
the way some people
love public holidays: — Thabo Jijana

And what do they even call this? It's not a threesome, or a love triangle. It's a two-and-a-half-some, an affection dihedron. — N.K. Jemisin

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts. — Shannon Hale

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

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

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

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

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

It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career. — Ronaldinho

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

Here it is out in the open and based - like all love is, maybe - on some amount of abiding affection and on some other amount of need. — Susan Conley

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

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. — Henri Frederic Amiel

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens

There is some truth in that. Absence feeds affection. — Patrick Rothfuss

Some men name their swords. I've always found that a strange affection. If I had to call it something I would all it Sharp — Mark Lawrence

So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope ... — Thomas Hardy

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence. — David Hume

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard. — George Herbert

If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can. — Janis Joplin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fortunately I did not need affection. — Samuel Beckett

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce. — Mason Cooley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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