Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Lacey

Almost from the moment she was born, she has done her duty without flinching and without complaint. That's one reason there is deep and abiding affection for her.

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Penn Jillette

This film has more affection and love and world peace in it than any Disney film ever made, ... This is a truly feel-good movie about (an unprintable family activity).

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Kevin Parker

There's a natural affinity to the two companies.

There's an affinity for those Delta areas because it's home for so many.

Andrew Jackson

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

Customers have started to develop an affinity for these devices, not only for the utility, but also because they represent a level of status, of personalization and of choice.

Charles Dickens

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Dick Cheney

First of all, I have great affection and respect for Halliburton. It's a fine company, and I'm pleased that I was associated with a company and with the men and women of Halliburton, some 83,000 strong around the world, during my tenure there,

Princess Margaret had conquered the affection of Italians, who will remember her cordial and human character,

Charles Dickens

Our affections are our consolation and comfort; and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better

Of what good, is a truth that may harm someone and does no good to anyone?Of what bad, is a lie that surely does some good to someone and does no harm to anyone?

John Piper

When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.'

Brody Jenner

I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end of the day, your guy friends are very important; they're the guys that are always going to be there. It's just you being a friend to me and I'm being a friend to you.

Amaury Nolasco

These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.

These are two people who feel it's okay to be out in public and showing their affection.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

George Eliot

We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.

Lyndon Johnson

It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

Lydia Child

The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.

Thomas Fuller

That trial is not fair where affection is judge

Lord Byron

Alas! our young affections run to waste, / Or water but the desert.

William Cowper

Skins may differ, but affectionDwells in white and black the same.

Joan Bennett

At times, particularly in childhood, I was intimidated by Constance, but she dictated from an aura of affection for me that was never threatening.

Not only synagogues are holy, but so are all places where people find their affinity with their God.

Richard Gere

I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.

Brian Billick

They are two class individuals and I know they have a great affection for the people in Tennessee, for that organization, as they should, ... There is nothing like going home and being in a competitive atmosphere.

They'll see a figure like Princess Diana who many people feel great affection for and suck them in that way.

John Caudwell

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

Robbie Williams

I love getting love and affection . . . and I like giving affection in return.

Robert Dallek

Reagan restored a sense of hope, a sense of uplift about the presidency. Now it's ironic, because he preached the idea that government was not the solution, government was the problem. And yet, when he left the White House, he had kind of rekindled affection for the presidency.

Florence Nightingale

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.