Top 43 Quotes About Affinities
#1. Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.
Thomas Hardy
#2. Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future.
(Foreword by Frederick Ungar in Elective Affinities, 1962, Ungar Publishing)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.
Dag Hammarskjold
#5. Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions.
Orison Swett Marden
#7. It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.
Remy De Gourmont
#8. The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed.
George Santayana
#9. Whoever you are, you're like no one else, and you can do magick like no one else, too. Each and every one of us is a one-of-a-kind pattern of energies and essence, each with our own affinities, abilities, and purpose.
Melanie Marquis
#10. Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
Robert Greene
#11. I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships down to even the accidental glance at someone on the street-there's always a definite reason somewhere. I think even the poets would agree with me.
Patricia Highsmith
#12. In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.
Guillaume Canet
#13. When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
Juan Goytisolo
#14. Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise.
Anthony Eden
#15. Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
Salman Rushdie
#16. Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.
Louis Agassiz
#17. Yes, she'd changed me, as much as a man with my particular affinities could change. She'd pushed me. She'd walked into my life, five-feet-three inches of fiery independence.
Meredith Wild
#19. Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
Sri Aurobindo
#20. The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
Hampton Sides
#21. Thus it is awkward to call motion-sickness a migraine attack, but we may very conveniently term it a migranoid reaction, and note, in support of its affinities, that a large minority (almost 50 per cent, according to Selby and Lance) of adult migraine sufferers experienced severe motion-sickness in
Oliver Sacks
#22. We lead more interesting lives than we think. We are characters in plots, without the compression and numinous sheen. Our lives, examined carefully in all their affinities and links, abound with suggestive meaning, with themes and involute turnings we have not allowed ourselves to see completely.
Don DeLillo
#23. Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn
#24. Still, whencesoever derived, the Egyptian people, as it existed in the flourishing time of Egyptian history, was beyond all question a mixed race, showing different affinities.
George Rawlinson
#25. affinities under the crust of colonialism. This brief overview of precolonial North America suggests the magnitude of what was lost to all humanity and counteracts the settler-colonial myth of the wandering Neolithic hunter.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
#26. It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.
John Burnham Schwartz
#27. The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.
Patricia Highsmith
#29. In the worship of security we fling ourselves beneath the wheels of routine-and before we know it our lives are gone.
Sterling Hayden
#30. I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading me to something. It was all about taking things one step at a time, one day at a time.
Jason Mraz
#31. An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.
Darrell Case
#32. In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the trouble is always with the swiftest.
Lew Wallace
#33. but seeing as I ain't so flush right now, I'm afraid your quids'll have to come pro quo.
Alexis Hall
#34. I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".
Hayao Miyazaki
#35. It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.
John Steinbeck
#36. It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.
Robert Benchley
#37. My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.
Dustin Lynch
#38. If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.
Dean Ween
#39. I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#40. I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.
Steven Spielberg
#41. It's being reported that Google spent over $5 million on lobbying just during the first quarter of this year. You'd think Google wouldn't really need to lobby politicians. All they have to say is, 'We have your search history. Do what we tell you.'
Jimmy Fallon
#43. O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
Bryan Procter
