Congenital Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always…
— Charles Baudelaire
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My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries.…
— Nick Cassavetes
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I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As…
— Enoch Powell
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Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.
— Kenneth Tynan
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How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and…
— Richard von Krafft-Ebing
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In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out a series of…
— Marc Thiessen
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Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the nature…
— Russell Kirk
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In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed woman. In contrast…
— Tom Brewer
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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as…
— Beatrix Campbell
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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
— Molly Ivins
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A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed…
— Dee Dee Myers
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In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form…
— Florence King
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You can drive.†When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to have a congenital…
— Nalini Singh
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The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which…
— Alain de Botton
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
— Fetty Wap
Who Wrote These Congenital Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Congenital Quotes as follows: