#affection

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#amity #love #love

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#always #care #going #good #lacking

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#full #i #i do #know #like

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#heart #man #mere #ought #scientific

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey. ↗

— Princess Diana

#always #carried #difficult #eased #journey

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#affection #durable #happiness #lives #nine-tenths

A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#been #buy #children #did #done

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#almost #any #author #beat #book

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#cry #every #exact #i #just

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#befall #boy #bring #consequence #few