Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bette Midler

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.

We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.

Peter Cushing

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

Lewis Thomas

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at.

Mick Foley

With respect to our audience and our concern over inappropriate material for our WWF viewers, we do, however, ask Mr. Gore to keep his public displays of affection to a minimum.

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,

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.

Cris Collinsworth

How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.

Kevin Rudd

There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life; there's a deep respect for her role.

Dusty Springfield

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

Daniel Keyes

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

Clara Schumann

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

Ambrose Bierce

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

Sophia Loren

I think, in our life I think that when you are an actor, when you are a producer, you have to be very discreet about your personal life, and you have to be closed in, in harmony and in affection and in everything.

Robert Frost

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

Richard Wagner

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Utada Hikaru

It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.

Richard Steele

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

Max Lucado

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.

Max Lucado

To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.

Pablo Neruda

To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know ... widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

Philip Sidney

No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.

Melanie Rawn

Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

Oscar Wilde

I never change, except in my affections.

Charles Dickens

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Secondly, reflect upon that love and entire affection which you have lost; and could no otherwise be lost, but by losing him, in whom it lived.

George Romero

So many execs don't get or understand the horror genre, they're used to being involved with story or plot, and when they're in a genre that they don't get or have affection for, it gets difficult.

John Taylor

Richard Nixon never raised a hand to Mrs. Nixon, ... Their affection and respect for one another is well known to all who knew them. It is inconceivable that he would have struck her for any reason. No family member or close friend has ever reported witnessing such behavior. The book contains no evidence, only rumor and second- and third-hand hearsay by the dead.

My secret campaign weapon is Rufus, whose 17 pounds of furry affection provides a playmate for the children of voters, giving mom and dad a few minutes to talk about their vision for the future.

Because of that search, ... we became a community. We shared our tears and affection. We now hold our children closer.