The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.
Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.
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.
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.
A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
I've got 50,000 Facebook fans inside of Iran, and Facebook is banned in Iran. I think the people who follow 'Humans of New York' the most after New York City is Tehran. I have a really special affection for the Persian people because they've really taken to my work.
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
I watched 'Who' with a mixture of affection and exasperation through the eighties, always ready to cheer on the Doctor but seldom feeling that the series was playing to its strengths. Some of the adventures, revisited on DVD, turn out to be better than I remembered - others just as infuriating.
You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.
Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.
I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.
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.
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.
But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.
Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.
I have a great affection for comics, and I think that people underrate comics as a genre.
In India, public display of affection is frowned upon.
There's something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.
But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.
