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Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values. -- Terry Southern
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. -- William James
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold. -- Theodore Parker
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else. -- Robert Morgan
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that. -- Paddy Ashdown
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? -- Humphry Davy
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness. -- William James
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. -- Louis Kahn
I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it. -- Erika Slezak
The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself. -- Soroosh Shahrivar
Affinity of a marriage is not a destination, but a journey of two hearts breezing into an yearning eternity -- Bernard Dsa
'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element. -- Andrew Davies
Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element. -- Andrew Davies
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. -- Dee Hock
I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Nikki Giovanni
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. -- William Ralph Inge
There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel. -- Bob Menendez
I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances. -- Hugo Weaving
The tech community is a closely knit group, which is why it's so powerful. All of these companies have an affinity for each other, even if they compete with each other. -- Ron Conway
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
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me. -- Jonathan Coe
Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before. -- Joseph Jarman
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. -- Khalil Gibran
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
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. -- David Crosby
I've always had an affinity for growing things. -- Maynard James Keenan
I don't know why women feel an affinity with me. -- Jennifer Aniston
You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss. -- Liev Schreiber
I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture. -- Ludacris
I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate. -- Guy Pearce
I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that. -- Foxy Brown
I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would've thunk it, you know? I mean, I didn't anticipate it. -- Greg Boyle
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera. -- Matt Smith
I have an affinity for the old Seattle coffee shops, places like the Green Onion and the Copper Kettle, the classic kind of coffee bar - little places that served breakfast, lunch and dinner and have pretty much disappeared. -- Tom Douglas
You could draw certain parallels between the structure of the Pompidou and the structure of the rocket-launching facilities at Cape Canaveral. They might not have been thinking about it, but I think there is some kind of unconscious affinity there. -- Kenneth Frampton
I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well. -- Rainn Wilson
I grew up loving monsters. I'm just a total monster geek. When I was a kid, I had the Aurora monster models, and I would make them. I loved the Universal horror movies and the Hammer movies. I just had an affinity for them. -- John Logan
The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn. -- Dario Argento
Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns. -- Fergie
Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and when I got to the private school in Manhattan, I learned of what we called 'The Promised Land,' which are the Hamptons. I've always had an affinity for the Hamptons. -- Mark Feuerstein
If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual influences seem to come from the United States, and in a recent speech he went to great lengths to emphasise the historical affinity and shared characteristics of the U.K. and the U.S. -- Martin Jacques
I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years. -- Rory McIlroy
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable. -- Jane Austen
I have a big affinity for the Coen Brothers. -- Scott Rudin
I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess. -- Kidada Jones
Heaven? I don't have an affinity with that place. -- SebastiAn
Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity. -- William Hazlitt
You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess. -- Liev Schreiber
Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength -- Prabhukrishna M
Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love. -- Howard Gardner
Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication. -- L. Ron Hubbard
I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility. -- Dexter Fletcher
I have a natural affinity with children and adults who cant accept adult responsibility. -- Dexter Fletcher
Interest refers to studentâ??s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable. -- Jack Kirby
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. -- Henry David Thoreau
I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that. -- Bill Kurtis
My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals]. -- Gloria Estefan
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. -- J. G. Holland
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book. -- Samuel Smiles
Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead. -- P. D. James
My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her. -- Giovanna Cau
After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions. -- Trevor Dunn
Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity. -- Al-Ghazali
Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on. -- Phil Pringle
I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past. -- Paloma Faith
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good. -- Tracy Letts
Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism? -- Benjamin Disraeli
I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods. -- Kyle MacLachlan
Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer. -- Scott Bakula
I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. -- Willem Dafoe
I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men. -- Richard LaGravenese
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction. -- Barton Gellman
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky. -- Carl Sagan
The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law. -- Walter Raleigh
I never do the dishes, because my husband has an affinity for it. And I'm also not allowed to touch the coffeemaker. -- Rachael Ray
I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that. -- Joey Santiago
Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity. -- Jean Sibelius
Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength. -- Yukio Mishima
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther. -- Peter Ustinov
I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times. -- Johnny Depp
It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry. -- Quentin S. Crisp
I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own. -- Teena Marie
Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable. -- Jane Austen
True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station. -- Henry David Thoreau
Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World. -- Larry Norman
Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people. -- Tom Hollander
The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves. -- William Faulkner
It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity. -- Gautama Buddha
Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious. -- Douglas McCulloh
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. -- William Ralph Inge
People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( "Le ciel c'est l'autre" ) -- Erik Pevernagie
I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone. -- Octavia Spencer
It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct. -- Julian Sanchez
There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity? -- Oscar Wilde
I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there. -- Princess Diana
It's incredible to be working with Mr Armani and his team at Emporio Armani. I feel an affinity to the brand ethos and have been a long time admirer of their designs. -- Calvin Harris
India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place. -- John Gimlette
Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign. -- Bob Beauprez
I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them. -- Jeff Fahey
Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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. -- Ron Luciano
I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence. -- Mary Ellen Mark
How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran? -- Henrique Capriles Radonski
Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural potency and an unmatched affinity. He is a unique stylist in our music. -- Oscar Peterson

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