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
An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings… — Mary Wollstonecraft 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
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I don't have a professional aspiration. But I do have a personal one: I want to continue growing as a person. I… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else,… — Victor Hugo 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
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
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
When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness ... it changes what we see. It changes what we remember. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,'… — Shirley Jackson 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 fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices. — Isaac Watts 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
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
There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over… — Marilynne Robinson 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
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
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
