The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get… — William James Copy Share Image
Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Any propensity other than love cannot exist in the spiritual world. There is unlimited variegatedness, but they are all extraordinarily wonderful ways… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right… — Richard Bangs Copy Share Image
Requiring the payment of higher wages will lead to a loss of some jobs and a raising of prices which drives companies… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From… — Howard Bloom Copy Share Image
Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life. — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity. — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.--Accordingly I set… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always… — Meghan Markle Copy Share Image
Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker. — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius… — Ryan Kwanten Copy Share Image
Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common:… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The national media don't know me. They know the caricature that was created of me by journalists who were frankly jealous of… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
