A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew… — Jeffrey Bewkes Copy Share Image
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era. — Bob Iger Copy Share Image
Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The level of backlash [for the True Detective] was kind of fascinating and not fully shocking because I know what the world… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to… — Bertie Carvel Copy Share Image
Your father wasn’t a positive influence on you, was he? (Simone) Being the god of nightmares, he wasn’t a warm fuzzy bunny.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I think we need leadership that can gently and with affection remind us of what we Americans mostly agree upon: civility, kindness,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is… — Sadaharu Oh Copy Share Image
For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Let me write not for fame and laurel, but from the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful even if… — John Keats Copy Share Image
America was the one territory where they didn't release 'Nights In White Satin' at the time it was made. It was about… — Justin Hayward Copy Share Image
Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling]… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I've always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam - esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
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