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

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!

Peter Cushing

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.