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
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
In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them. — Jane Austen 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
Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any… — Wayne Dyer 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
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
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
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
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
And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“Is happiness a sort of blissful state of mind or just a kind of surreal propensity? It may be hard to recognize… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is… — Mary McGrory 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
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
