For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, – all duties even

I cannot stop them. This is their affection and love and we live for this. And I hope that this love and affection remains with us so that we are inspired to work more and...

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.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

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

If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.

Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?

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...

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

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another...

Never blame circumstances for your condition, you yourself are responsible for what you go through. If someone’s treating you bad, its your fault not theirs. If you are not satisfied with your life, its time...

Worship and spiritual hunger make you so attractive to God that your circumstances cease to matter anymore. He will move heaven and earth to find a worshiper. When you begin to worship with all your...

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

It had taken her a good deal of time before she believed that she was worth all that fierce affection he lavished upon her. To have it stolen away unjustly was that much more cruel.

I think they should combine the Summer and Winter Olympics and call it the Fall Olympics. They could host it in the spring, when all the lovers will flock to see me preform live for...

You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?…’I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not...

There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment,...

Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.

Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible...

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

I love firm hugs. Statues are so affectionate. Well, at least compared to my ex wife.

Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.

Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they...

If not love, what?

Love is like a black hole – when you get too close, there’s no way back

Princess Margaret had conquered the affection of Italians, who will remember her cordial and human character,

A starving man asleep dreams of food, and even a crumb becomes a feast. When you’re hungry for affection even a no is better than being ignored.

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts...

When someone who’s starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?

She says: …love is really all that matters. He hears: …really love to do it on the mattress.

I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they...

In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one.

She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentle, knowing all the ways of the family, interested in all its concerns, and peculiarly interested in herself, in every pleasure,...

It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women…that we should be the ones who so desperately need love…affection…acceptance.And yet, we suffer…many of us, for lack of it throughout our entire lives.”-Shackles of Honor

I crave the violence of your affection. I ache for the way it jumbles my insides and makes my heart feel like it’s harboring a thunderstorm. I’ve never felt more alive in all my time...

You are so special and important and elegant and smart and kind and worthwhile, and you are so much better than me and everyone else I’ve ever known in every single way, and you are...

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?

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a...

…you have not only a very large portion of my affection and esteem, but all that I am capable of feeling…

Don’t act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

I love to hold people’s hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven’t experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.

‘I knew you’d kiss me.’ ‘How?’ I say. Because I didn’t know myself. ‘Because I am in pain,’ he says. ‘That’s the only way I get your attention.’

I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a paper body. You will meet a girl with a softer voice and stronger...

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro’s question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others’?

If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.

[L]asting love is something a person has to decide to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural—not for women even, and emphatically not for men. It requires what, for lack of a better term,...

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one’s own wife.