Best Fondness Sayings
93 Fondness quotes by 83 unique authors
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Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of…
— Mohsin Hamid
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The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
— Samuel Johnson
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Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
— James Surowiecki
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I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
— Daniel Tammet
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I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have…
— Lewis Thomas
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You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough.…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.
— Jane Smiley
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I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is…
— John Hodgman
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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in…
— Victor Hugo
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There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again,…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Tigerkit! Have you been eavesdropping again?" Tawnypelt glared at her dark tabby kit, but it was easy to see the fondness in her eyes.
— Erin Hunter
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My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.
— Brandon Sanderson
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What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence…
— Cormac McCarthy
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It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a…
— William P. Young
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It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.
— Sloane Crosley
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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
— Jane Austen
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Your father wasn’t a positive influence on you, was he? (Simone) Being the god of nightmares, he wasn’t a warm fuzzy bunny. Unless you count…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated…
— Susanna Clarke
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No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
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People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive.
— Suzanne Collins
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Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.
— Matt Ridley
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