Pastoral Resources

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

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

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

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.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.

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.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

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

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.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

I obviously have a lot of love and affection for the people of Hamilton from playing there for so long.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.