The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it. — Swami Brahmananda Copy Share Image
“It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.” — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“You need to know who you are and what makes you tick. You need to know what it is that you want… — Rick Johnson Copy Share Image
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Wild foods, microbial cultures included, possess a great, unmediated life force, which can help us adapt to shifting conditions and lower our… — Sandor Katz Copy Share Image
Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions… — Joan Konner Copy Share Image
Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material… — Edward Wilmot Blyden Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Homosexual feelings are controllable. Perhaps there is an inclination or susceptibility to such feelings that is a reality for some and not… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as… — David Edward Copy Share Image
A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“While susceptibility varies, addiction can happen to any of us, through a subtle process where the bonds of degradation are too light… — s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Weak men often from the very principle of their weakness derive a certain susceptibility; delicacy and taste which render them, in those… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Another reason for the increased self-centeredness of an adolescent is her susceptibility to humiliation. This brazen, defiant creature is also something tender,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
