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“I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I ask? The events in which I am involved will probably save me from the troubles of old age. I shall die in full possession of my faculties, and that is another advantage that I should count among those that I have enjoyed. If I have any distressing thoughts, it is of not having done more for my family; to be unable to give either to them or to you any token of my affection and my gratitude is to be poor indeed.”

“The name is not important anymore - it's the tone that counts. I feel like an old dog I know. He will come to any name you call him, just so long as your demeanor carries with it the promise of affection and food”

Knows Feels Long Important Names Dog Promise Affection Tone Carrie Old Dog Demeanor

Book:Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life

Source: Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life

“A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.”

Character Dream Enjoy Friendship Dog Fields Adversity Fellows Affection Caress

Book:The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side

Source: The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side

“The way of awakening and freedom requires that we ask ourselves, with all of the earnestness, honesty, and humility at our command, just this one fundamental question: 'Am I willing to live this moment with as much attention and affection as possible, or am I going to do something else?'”

Way Life Moments Asks Attention Honesty Humility Willing Fundamentals Affection Awakening Command Earnestness

Author:Scott Morrison

“Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.”

Character Bits Deals Talking Vision Stupid Fellows Affection Sat Desks Blunt Funny Character

Author:Madeleine Stowe

“It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not be kept back by anything low and mean; it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.”

Mean Desire Love Is Lows Adversity Affection Prosperity Burden Carrie Love Is Hard

Author:Thomas a Kempis

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

Special Cry Affection Spots Dumbo

Author:Leonard Maltin

“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.”

People Feelings Strong Capable Affection Stranger Guests

Book:Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated

Source: Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated

“He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.”

Lasts Affection Genuine Interviews Portions Rabbits Fondness

Author:Mary Cover Jones

“I have no fondness for pure form at all.”

Form Pure Affection Fondness

Author:Peter Porter

“But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.”

Ifs Might Mother Father Games Mets Affection Chess Mother And Father Fondness Playing Chess

Author:Dorothy Dunnett

“I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.”

Looks Made Law Decision Practice Judging Affection Glad Enjoyed Serving Fondness Treasured Federal Judges

Author:George J. Mitchell

“I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.”

Feels My Own Affection Cinema

Author:Patrice Leconte

“Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.”

People Want Years Persons Real Affection Weather All Time

Author:Leonard Strong

“I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.”

Affection Soapbox

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.”

Drink Affection

Author:Utada Hikaru

“I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.”

Flower Affection Dirt Hoe

Book:Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

Source: Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

“Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.”

Affection Department Walt

Author:John Hench

“It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.”

Thinking Want Affection Opium

Author:Townsend Harris

“I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.”

Used Arms Affection Used To Be Indian Wrestling

Author:Leslie Fiedler

“I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.”

Kind Acting Affection

Author:Thomas Haden Church

“I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.”

Writing Self Hard Doubt Figures Hard Work Goes On Battle Constant Affection Territory Self-doubt

Author:Robert Sheckley

“I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.”

Sometimes Affection

Author:Marian McPartland

“I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.”

Artist Born Knowing Sacred Affection Intense Quests Custody Olden Times Joint Custody

Author:Gustave Courbet

“I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.”

Men Enough Fighting Affection

Author:Anjelica Huston

“My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.”

Law Father Military Army Affair Affection Administration Latter Senate Chairman In-laws Wilson Father In Law

Author:Stuart Symington

“I shot "Footloose" nearby and we used to hike. Very fond memories.”

Used Memories Shots Affection Fond Memories Footloose

Author:Dianne Wiest

“I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.”

Giving Real Affection Interviews Giving In

Author:Priscilla Presley

“I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list.”

Way Would Be Film Girl Numbers Affection Lists Intimate Number 4

Author:Bill Forsyth

“I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.”

Play My Own Benefits Affection Loud

Author:Kerry King

“Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection”

Thinking Men Praise Affection Craving Affectionate

Author:Jack Butler Yeats

“I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.”

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full of affection, of fiery daring. Something chivalrous in him; brave as a lion; yet with a grace, a truth and affection worthy of Christian knighthood.”

Shows Christian Young Grace Creatures Brave Affection Worthy Noble Lions Daring Fiery Chivalry Knighthood

Author:Edward Gibbon

“Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.”

Long Differences Affection Storm Indifference Severe Frost Vigor

Author:Walter Scott

“There is no power greater than true affection.”

Greater Affection True Affection

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution.”

Action Evil Influence Affection Triumph Permit Protected Caution

Author:Neil Gaiman

“My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.”

Light Names Strong Grows Common Air Blood Equal Privilege Affection Protection Ties Iron Links Colony Kindred Equal Protection

Book:Burke, Select Works

Source: Burke, Select Works

“How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.”

Men Natural Simple Mets Mark Simplicity Affection Not Sure Great Men Majestic

Author:Charles G. Dawes

“Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.”

Habit Affection

Book:Economics

Source: Economics

“UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.”

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.”

Affection Satiety Enterprising

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. The Amor Patriae love of ones country is both a moral duty and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors but of millions of our fellow creatures, not only of the present but of future generations. This virtue we find constitutes a part of the first characters of history.”

Source: Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792

“You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.”

Men Love Philosophical Affection Unbearable

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in us. What would we think of a man or woman who does not experience jealous feelings when another person approaches his or her spouse and threatens to win his or her affection? We would regard such a person as deficient in moral character and lacking in true love.”

Source: Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God

“Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.”

Love May Long Use Light Funny Love Is Fire Pure Affection Breathe Torches Ignite Cozy

Book:The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.”

Should Looks Heart Stills Humanity Order Universe Stars Path Loneliness Promise Affection Circles Cosmic Psychedelic Psilocybin

Book:True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

“The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.”

Men Made Citizens Affection Stores Treasure Endless Enthusiasm Preserves Idealism Priceless Boyhood

Book:Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950

Source: Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950

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

World Lord Affection Tyrants Fierce

Author:John Sterling

“Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.”

Kind Beautiful Imagination Quality Youth Dresses Rose Affection Delight Merit Destructive Frank Marvellous Amiable Confiding Empresses

Book:The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…

Source: The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…

“There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.”

Names Nature Memories Study Affection

Author:Charles Nodier