Quotes about Affection

Someone, in a fit of universal affection, suggests an option: Bush here for a year or two, and Gorbachev there. That's how we'll even things out. I have a great affection for Indian culture and music. I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating. I will never forget the affection of the Inter fans who made me feel like one of them and who always supported and helped me. When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love. What is it between Obama and Iran? That's the question we all ought to have. Because it sure seems to me like Obama's got some sort of affection for that nation. Those who do not cherish affection for their parents, spouses and children and for their homes, villages and workplaces cannot love their country and fellow people; they can never become genuine patriots. Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer spirit. I profoundly love the profession, and I work on each film as if it were the first - and the last. Giving the best of myself. Many of the 'greats' ask their arranger to write their scores for them. Me, I write all alone, from the first note to the last. All. I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot. There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two. This is a marriage of convenience, not of affection, not of love ... where they intersect is pushing back against the United States and our influence around the world, they'd like to change the rules of the game, and in each other, they see a useful foil. I was like a child when he gives his love, who only expects affection, never goodbye. Try and spread a lot of love and affection around the world. The most important thing is not to 'con' the public. Be real. The firmer tether that you hold a person, the weaker his affection for you. Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love? Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father. The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever. I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless. Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. If we verily bear the cross we shall be neither controlled nor influenced by soulical affection but shall be fit to love in the power of the Holy Spirit. Even so did the Lord Jesus love His family while on earth. I wanted to be open. On the last project, 'Affection,' I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open. Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old. I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father. Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection. All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God. By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away. Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection. 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. If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build fo