One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was—after which you pray like mad to… — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
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
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
'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more… — Anonymous 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 love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.' — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit. — Anonymous 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
“[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've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
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
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
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'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
People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image