#fond

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war. ↗

— Philip Roth

#fond #inordinately #subordination #unless #war

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. ↗

— George Saunders

#believe #briefly #center #delusion #else

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#christian #christian right #christians #during #fond

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

#flunked #fond #i #like #men

I'm very fond of drugs. ↗

— Grace Slick

#i #very

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#another #because #fond #our #same

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#affairs #army #chairman #father-in-law #fond

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 genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#against #born #claim #connection #despite

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#halfway #ill #luck #meet #people

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ↗

— Aristotle

#because #certain #children #fathers #fonder