Quotes of Propensity - somelinesforyou

“ If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. ”

- William Winwood Reade

“ We had a GREAT TIME! We like what we were doin' and we did it with a great amount of flair. We did it with a propensity towards 'Ready or not, here we come!'. ”

- Buck Owens

“ Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. ”

- Tim Berners Lee

“ The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ”

- Fisher Ames

“ Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. ”

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“ 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 shoe's laces. ”

- Hitopadesa

“ There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. ”

- Benjamin Haydon

“ Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. ”

- Jane Austen

“ No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ If we look into ourselves, we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form. Could our minds be made visible, we should find them tailed. ”

- William Winwood Reade

“ All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ”

- Carl Edward Sagan

“ Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed… ”

- Benjamin Haydon

“ We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act. ”

- William Winwood Reade
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