Fondness Quotes

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (Samuel Johnson)
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 of peace. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past. View quote
Jane Smiley
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. View quote
Patricia Highsmith
I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting. View quote
Teri Garr
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting. View quote
James Surowiecki
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 God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. View quote
Alphonsus Liguori
But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here. View quote
Dorothy Dunnett
I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game. View quote
Sadaharu Oh
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk – handsome, twentytwoyearold. (Vladimir Mayakovsky)
I have no fondness for pure form at all. View quote
Peter Porter (poet)
An inordinate fondness for beetles. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
Fondness for stories is just one of many artifacts, side effects of the way our brains work. View quote
Daniel Levitin
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 and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise. (All the Pretty Horses) View quote
Cormac McCarthy
Needless to say, if I knew my daughter would eventually develop a fondness for methamphetamine or crack cocaine, I might never sleep again. But if she does not try a psychedelic like psilocybin or LSD at least once in her adult life, I will worry that she may have missed one of the most important rites of passage a human being can experience. View quote
Sam Harris
Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play. View quote
John Dos Passos
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. View quote
Jane Austen
I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness. View quote
George J. Mitchell
Tis only Man, mischievous Man, that can make Death a Sport. Nature taught your Stomach to crave nothing but Vegetables; but your violent Fondness to change, and greater Eagerness after Novelties, have prompted you to the Destruction of Animals without Justice or Necessity, perverted your Nature and warp'd your Appetites which way soever your Pride or Luxury have call'd them. (Bernard Mandeville)
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. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
One has never known a good man to whom dogs were not dear; but many of the best women have no such fondness. You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. For the attractive woman, dogs are mere dumb and restless brutes - possibly dangerous, certainly soulless. Yet will coquetry teach her to caress any dog in the presence of a man enslaved by her. View quote
Max Beerbohm
I shook my head ruefully. Police departments all over the world were identical in two respects: they all have a fondness for breaking your head open for little or no provocation, and they can't see the simple truth if it's lying in front of them naked with its legs spread. The police don't enforce laws; they don't even get busy until after the laws are broken. They solve crimes at a pitifully low rate of success. What the police are, to be honest, is a kind of secretarial pool that records the names of the victims and the statements of the witnesses. After enough time passes, they can safely shove this information to the back of the filing system to make room for more. View quote
George Alec Effinger
If we recognize, following the materialist theories, that only the physical nature exist, and that man contain ("renferme", Fr.) no higher essence, divine, which, by one side of his being, raise (promote or improve...) him above his animal nature, it would be a question ("il ne saurait être question", Fr.) neither of obligation, nor of moral responsability; then the supreme good would consist for him, indeed, to satisfy his appetites and his natural inclinations (fondness or partiality, -"penchant", Fr.), to look for the pleasure and flee from (scud, shun, avoid, -"fuir", Fr.) pain. In this case, there could be neither religion nor moral, since religion is precisely what raise man above vulgar (or common, - "vulgaire", Fr.) reality, and that moral is the very negation of selfishness. View quote
African Spir