The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it. — Swami Brahmananda 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
“It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.” — Anne Brontë 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
Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility. — Charles Henry Parkhurst 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
