#affection

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#aid #certain #despise #elevation #helpful

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#amusement #flat #friendly #keeps #love

I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#i #i think #inspires #loyalty #people

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. ↗

— Richard Steele

#capable #heaven #hell #image #life

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. ↗

— John Sterling

#affords #fiercest #lords #our #own

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection. ↗

— Terence

#authority #better #established #firmer #force

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#alienation #did #father #great #his

Infidelity is an opium of unfaithfulness. ↗

— Toba Beta

#disloyalty #infidelity #opium #satisfaction #unfaithfulness

Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#attention #respect #life

Taggle, meanwhile, made himself popular, killing rats and bringing a rabbit into camp every evening, preening in the praise - silently, thank god, though at night, he recounted choice bits to Kate: "Rye Baro says I am a princeling; he split the leg bone for me so that I could eat the marrow. They love me. And I'm sure they'll keep you, too." Mira, she thought, and treasured it each time she heard it, They must keep me. Family. ↗

— Erin Bow

#belonging #boasting #hope #longing #talking-animals