#affection

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#affections #anything #consists #else #men

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. ↗

— Jane Austen

#better #cases #feels #had #more

Most people would rather give than get affection. ↗

— Aristotle

#get #give #most #people #rather

Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their affection for the president or - we don't have those problems and we don't have the reinvention convention. ↗

— David Axelrod

#affection #convention #divided #know #other

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom. ↗

— Franz Boas

#allowing #ceremonial #emotional #father #freedom

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ↗

— George Eliot

#affection #altogether #attachment #faults #heaven

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#austere #between #chastity #christianity #close

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#being #expressive #extremely #latin #makes

The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success. ↗

— Lucien Bouchard

#board #chemistry #doing #good #great

Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#everywhere #go #i #know #me