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Quotes About Affection

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
When we are looking for validation, that will never satisfy us. When we are looking for affection, for love, a little bit of that will be enough to be complete.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I love all the Imperial Valley, man.
~ Andy Ruiz Jr.
I really loved making my mom laugh, and I knew that she thought that I was funny. It was really valuable, in my home growing up, to be able to have a chat and participate in a conversation and be funny. Whatever I could do to make my mom laugh could either get me out of trouble or just get me more attention or get me respect in the house.
~ Katherine Ryan
My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
~ Dalai Lama
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
~ Charlotte Bronte
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
~ Anne Bronte
I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.
~ Emma Watson
Number 12, always remember that I love you -both of you. Oh, Willie, ya silly goose!
~ Janette Oke
I didn't love Jane in that swept-away sense. I didn't put her needs first or think about trying to surprise or delight her. I didn't take time out of my daily life to find that "special something" for her.
~ Jann S. Wenner
Is my love so small that I cannot let him discover anew what happiness life has to offer?
~ Janny Wurts
I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
~ Jasper Fforde
Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances.
~ Jasper Fforde
She was the sort of parent you would want to have living close by, but only on the grounds that she would then never come to stay. I loved her dearly, but in small doses.
~ Jasper Fforde
They were my aunt and uncle; I loved them deeply, although both were mad as pants.
~ Jasper Fforde
Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstance.
~ Jasper Fforde
A bully wants you to cower or blush or run away in embarrassment. If you want to reverse the power, try pretending deep affection with just a little bit of pity.
~ Jay Heinrichs
Irene threw her arms about him and kissed him. Then she grinned and said, "Why, Danny Dunn! The water's almost light enough for me to see you blush.
~ Jay Williams
Antigone — Et serre moi. Plus fort que tu ne m'as jamais serrée. Que toute ta force s'imprime dans moi. Hémon — Là. De toute ma force.
~ Jean Anouilh
An unknown individual accosts me outside a café: 'Surely you're not going to wait till you're dead to be loved? The implication of his remark: when are you going to do what you have to do to be loved? Implied beneath this: you are not loved. Hurry up and die: it's your last chance. But in another sense, the question suggests that I have to be love one way or another. And that is also a declaration of love.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Il n'y a pas d'amour, il n'y a que des preuves d'amour.
~ Jean Cocteau
Thus, love had taught her to decipher the mysteries of childhood.
~ Jean Cocteau
Knock, Knock. Who's there? Olive. Olive who? Olive...ooh. I love you, too, he said, figuring it out. You can tell me that one anytime you like. He folded her into his arms.
~ Jean Ferris
Christian looked at her fondly. When she was happy, so was he.
~ Jean Ferris