Pastoral Resources

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

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

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

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

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.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

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

During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.