Fondness Quotes
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If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
— James Surowiecki
But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.
— Catherynne M Valente
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
— Patricia Highsmith
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.
— Euripides
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.
— Norman Lock
The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful.
— Yangsze Choo
Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.
— Sloane Crosley
Awful fondness you people have for knives. It's really not right.
— Theresa Romain
English fondness for France is normally a sort of neutron love: take away the people and leave the buildings standing.
— Anthony Lane
And bloody hell. This journeyed far beyond "like," rocketed straight past "fondness," and pushed all the way to the brink of absurdity.
— Tessa Dare
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
— Robert Silverberg
He liked radical politics and had a fondness for chocolate.
— Laura Kinsale
God has an inordinate fondness for stars and also for beetles. The small and the very far away.
— Kelly Link
It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
— Danny Boyle
Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.
— Herb Ritts
He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.
— Mary C. Jones
I'd put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn't allowed for any fondness to grow between us.
— Courtney Miller Santo
I have no fondness for pure form at all.
— Peter Porter
I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.
— Alan Ball
The ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while.
— Charlaine Harris
There was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.
— Robin Hobb
You suffer through it as you struggle to solve it, but by the end you've developed a sort of fondness for it, and you miss it when it is gone.
— Ed Catmull
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
— Bob Iger
People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive.
— Suzanne Collins
I have a passing fondness for explosions.
That was concerning on so many levels. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes
That was concerning on so many levels. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes
My affection for you is not my problem.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.
— David Levithan
When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness ... it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.
— Robert Legato
It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.
— Margaret Way
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
— Baron De Montesquieu
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
— Daniel Tammet
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
— Madame Roland
But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.
— Diane Meier
Aye, we all know your fondness for apples, brother.
— Phyllis Ann Karr
Hmmm. Someone has a high opinion of himself. Comes with being royalty, I suppose. Like funny hats and a fondness for beheadings.
— Brandon Sanderson
When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.
— Donald Hall
And Father's fondness for talking about farting and going to the bathroom is disgusting.
— Anne Frank
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.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?'
'None,' said Mrs. Halloran. — Shirley Jackson
'None,' said Mrs. Halloran. — Shirley Jackson
I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.
— Alice McDermott
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.
— Matt Ridley
Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
— Samuel Johnson
Theta loved pretty things more than air or food. She had a deep fondness for full red roses, pink shells, and starry sunsets.
— Lena Goldfinch
If you like someone, you wish them well.
But.
If you love someone, you breathe wellness into them. — Sima Mittal
But.
If you love someone, you breathe wellness into them. — Sima Mittal
That's how I gained a lifelong fondness for repeating certain phrases beyond the point of all reason.
— Roger Ebert
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
— Samuel Johnson
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
I have no great fondness for the universe, but I do live there
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I am just curious at heart, and my curious heart has quite a fondness for love stories.
— Renee Ahdieh
My prior fondness for the dress turned to hate-you can take the girl out of the jeans ... but you shouldn't.
— Nicole Williams
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
— Alexander Hamilton
God does not 'love' us without liking us ...
— Dallas Willard