Propensity Quotes
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
— Jane Austen
REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.
— Ambrose Bierce
I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.Accordingly I set off thus: — Laurence Sterne
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
— Bill Vaughan
The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.
— Charles C. Mann
Have you ever been faced with the clear certainty that the culinary arts have a great propensity to rendering themselves unsavory?
— Nicole Sager
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
— Fisher Ames
Strong minded people control their propensity.Dependency on anything is a lack of maturity. — Ricardo Derose
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
— Benjamin Haydon
I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men ...
— Mercy Otis Warren
We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.
— Ralph Cudworth
Life with kids is unpredictable. Their propensity to live "in the moment" clashes easily with our "perfect plans.
— Jill Savage
Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
— Ambrose Bierce
The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage
— Robert James Waller
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
— Thorstein Veblen
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
— Seneca The Younger
The propensity to do good things is a choice.
— Shaun Cassidy
I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.
— Robert Pattinson
It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.
— Joanna Baillie
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
— Bertrand Russell
Curiosity is a restless propensity and often does but hurry us forward the more irresistably, the greater is the danger that attends its indulgence.
— Lennard J. Davis
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature
— John Bowlby
No better is the propensity, very popular nowadays, to brand supporters of other ideologies as lunatics. Psychiatrists
— Ludwig Von Mises
For EARTH which is an intelligence hath a voice and a propensity to speak in all her parts.
— Christopher Smart
I remind myself how people with a low propensity for success whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success.
— Keith Ferrazzi
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.
— Edward Gibbon
It is a human propensity to refuse any change. After all, who desires to move out of their cosy caves and battle in this ever-developing world.
— Kunal Narayan Uniyal
There is a known correlation between denial of one's sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour.
— Peter Tatchell
An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
— Ambrose Bierce
Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker.
— Marek Belka
Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.
— Peter FitzSimons
Blood transmits a propensity for heart diseases; if it also transmits a propensity for treason, no one has ever been able to prove it.
— Jonathan Littell
lot of agility, adaptability, a natural propensity toward curiosity, an insatiable appetite for that and this and this and that!
— Margaret Lobenstine
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.
— Jaak Panksepp
The propensity of man, is to invent history, that he may promote his own destiny...Rev. Joaquin R. Larriba — Joaquin R. Larriba
Contentment is not a natural propensity of man.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
