Quotes About Affinity

Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies.

I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world. Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis -Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ

The very fact of our becoming aware of this profound ordering of things will enable human collectivization to pass beyond the enforced phase, where it now is, into the free phase: that in which (men having at last understood that they are inseparably joined elements of a converging Whole, and having learnt in consequence to love the preordained forces that unite them) a natural union of affinity and sympathy will supersede the forces of compulsion.

o semelhante sempre do semelhante se aproxima.

Because you seem not to be aware that any one who has an intellectual affinity to Socrates and enters into conversation with him is liable to be drawn into an argument; and whatever subject he may start, he will be continually carried round and round by him, until at last he finds that he has to give an account both of his present and past life; and when he is once entangled, Socrates will not let him go until he has completely and thoroughly sifted him.

The qualities, which a man seeks in his beloved, are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

I'm a fan of Drew Brees.

My entry into films was forced, and I always had an affinity towards academics. Having said that, it is the artiste within that urged me to say yes to acting.

Although the work dates from the Early Renaissance, Gentile shows an affinity with these older traditions in his style and materials, which implies there are not such clear breaks between one artistic period and the next.

They were very close. Like this.' Here Yolande attempted to cross her fingers but the nails kept knocking into each other making it look like a finger puppet version of All Star Wrestling.

Beauvoir was so close to Frère Raymond

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

People like people who like them.

How you feel about someone should not be measured by how well you know them, but how you feel when you are with them.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

I liked television, and television liked me.

People take a liking to me like I'm a long-lost friend.

I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

I get along with Eva Marie really well, I think she's really cool and I get to hang out with her a lot and she's a lot of fun to be with.