Overfondness Quotes & Sayings

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently. — Kate Bush

As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer. — Romesh Gunesekera

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

The world of men harbours a morbid condition of overfondness for themselves — Jean Sasson

On the subject of Egypt, Ellen Cherry was so vague she thought Ramses II was a jazz piano player. From that, we might conclude that she was equally dumb about jazz. — Tom Robbins

If only closed minds came with closed mouths. — Anonymous

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

No' is a reaction, not a position. The people who react negatively to your proposal simply need time to evaluate it and adjust their thinking. With the passage of sufficient time and repeated efforts on your part, almost every 'no' can be transformed into a 'maybe' and eventually a 'yes'. — Herb Cohen

But he hated to see his people people unhappy
because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one
— Robin McKinley

Many scientific disciplines begin by not observing any sort of vital spark or consciousness in material events and proceed to deny that these things exist in living things, including themselves. Because consciousness does not fit into their mechanistic schemes they declare it illusory. Magicians make exactly the reverse argument. Observing consciousness in themselves and animals, they are magnanimous enough to extend it to all things to some degree - trees, amulets, planetary bodies, and all. This is a far more respectful and generous attitude than that of religions, most of whom won't even give animals a soul. — Peter J. Carroll

This has been such a scorching series." - Jamie Leigh — Scarlett Avery

You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance - as opposed to her ideas or actions - isn't doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman's looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she's ugly, but everyone else thinks you're an idiot. — Erin Gloria Ryan

That the majority of people do not embrace salvation in this life does not mean that their experiences now do not lay a foundation for a later acceptance of it. — Gregory MacDonald

Defiance of the way things are is the only way to embrace what's coming. — Shelly Crane

The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore
A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale. — Alexander Smith