Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like… — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
I eventually grew into a pre-teen Marilyn Munster, that being the only option I could find that allowed for a) blonde hair,… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon,… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
As I look back on my fondness for the outdoors, and specifically the elements in nature that I find visually stimulating, I… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In regard to dogs, my most memorable thoughts concern my daughter's dog and her fondness for them. In fact, one day while… — Tom Monaghan Copy Share Image
I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and… — David Tang Copy Share Image
I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Rick Perry I have a great fondness for. And what Rick Perry has, like Jeb Bush has, it will be interesting to… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
We dont appreciate the moment we our enjoying until it converts into a memory and when it does we can never go… — Frederick A Babb Copy Share Image
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I agree and I disagree in the sense that I think that he [Donald Trump] has a fondness for autocrats, but at… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself -… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is because Asians have a… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife.… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image