Affection Quotes

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.

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

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.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.

There was a lot of genuine respect and personal affection evident in the room after Paul spoke. I'd say the applause must have lasted at least five minutes. Our No. 1 priority now as a league is to build on the shoulders of this commissioner.

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

I should start off by saying that I have a very deep affection for American Idol . It's a brilliant show, an absolute phenomenon in the history of television, and I'm not just saying that because they had me on as a guest judge and performer last year -- I truly enjoy the show and would watch it even if the contestants didn't sing my songs as part of the competition and keep my music in the minds of the record-buying public. Now, William Hung ... well, he's certainly no Clay Aiken, my all-time favorite American Idol participant for obvious reasons. But I have a special fondness for William, too -- after all, when I was starting out, people said I was funny-looking and couldn't sing. And even when I became a gigantic pop star in the '70s, I had nearly as many people who hated me as adored me, and let me tell you, a lot of people adored me! Now, could William have done a better job singing my song 'It's a Miracle,' which you can find on several of my Greatest Hits albums? Probably. But if he keeps at it despite what the millions of people who despise him think, then perhaps one day he, too, will sign an eight-year deal to entertain at the Las Vegas Hilton on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights, two shows on Saturday, senior citizen and group discounts available.

[After the show of affection, it was time to break out.] I'm trying to get as far way from this place as possible, ... Let's go.

[Koch told CNN in a phone interview he has] a great deal of affection and respect ... great common sense.

[When asked why he appears to be less inhibited about showing his affection for Holmes in public than in his past relationships, Cruise tells] Access Hollywood ... I am so happy and I am not going to pretend or hide it or be shy. This woman is magnificent.

The affection in which Princess Diana is still held is remarkable, but I knew Dodi and, far from being the playboy he was portrayed as, he was a charming, hard-working film producer who had made his own way in life.

It's amazed me as to the outpouring of affection that people have for them, and 100 percent of all ticket sales goes to Children's Mercy. I had a guy come into our office about an hour ago and buy a hundred tickets. Another guy came in and bought 200 yesterday.

I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

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

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

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