The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even.
I have a particular affection for zero because it was some of my countrymen who first gave it the status of a number.
Every human being I know craves love and affection.
Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
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.
I've got huge affection for Everton. It was my life for over a decade.
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.
In India, public display of affection is frowned upon.
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.
I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.
I have a great affection for Indian culture and music.
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
I felt bad for Newcastle when they lost their 2005 FA Cup semi-final to Manchester United. They had loaned me out to Celtic, but I still had a lot of affection for them.
I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.
