Quotes About Affinity

Through history it's the novelist who has felt affinity for the violent man who lives in the dark. Where are your sympathies? With the colonial police, the occupier, the rich landlord, the corrupt government, the militaristic state? Or with the terrorist?

Every bar has some affinity for boxing, because drinkers and boxers sit on stools and feel woozy and measure time in rounds.

He is half of my soul,

At most, a certain resemblance might have been observed.

Self-interest would become comfort and then affinity. Transparency, for this reason, was vital: "We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing." Athenians found "the fruits of other countries" to be "as familiar a luxury as those of [their] own." The walls made their citizenship global.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn't something about you at all. It was just you.

No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

The sentiment of fear is nearly allied to that of hatred.

Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

I've always liked men better than women.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

True love knows no league.

One does not make friends. One recognizes them.

Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other... you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations

I instantly like people who laugh at my jokes. It's a weakness of mine.

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We will arrive at the universal not by abandoning our particularity but by turning it into a way of reaching others, by virtue of that mysterious affinity which makes situations mutually understandable.

La atrajo hacia él y, por una vez, entendió lo que ella había sentido cada día desde que se conocían.

Bound to you as the rays are to the sun.

Nothing befalls man that is not the nature of himself. People emerge out of the mass betraying their close affinity to your moods as they are engendered. You meet them seemingly by accident but find they are intimates of your moods. Because your moods continually externalise themselves you could prophesy from your moods, that you, without search, would soon meet certain characters and encounter certain conditions.