Quotes with affection

Quotes 41 till 60 of 63.

  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Nan Fairbrother 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.
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  • Elizabeth Drew The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
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  • Bertrand Russell The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bob Schaffer 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.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslapping, and many other ways of winning friends.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Aristotle The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Umberto Eco There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is no great difference between politeness and affection.
    The Caxtons
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Abraham Lincoln We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
    First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anthony Holden Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Anna Freud 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.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Robert Southey What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Hitopadesa When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Dickens With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Buddha You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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