Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damon Galgut

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

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

Eddie Jordan

We're going to hug him and kiss him. We're going to show him his way to the basket. He's a terrific guy. We love him.

Usually, a candidate has to nail down the base and move to the centre after the nomination, ... She has the flexibility because she has so much affection from the base.

George Bernard Shaw

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it

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.

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.

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.

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?

affections that here in America would freak people out.

William Shakespeare

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts

The most important thing about Annie is that she has heart. She has a genuine affection for whatever she does.

Peter MacKay

Nova Scotia is my home and I have a great deal of affection for my province but having said that, I made the decision some time ago to enter federal politics,

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.

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

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.

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

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

Lillian Gordy Carter

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

What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

Kara Swisher

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.

Dean Koontz

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

When affection only speaks, truth is not always there

Edmund Hillary

I still had the same affection for New Zealand as I've always had. Didn't change at all.

Aristotle

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.