Predilection Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from…
— Frederick William Faber
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At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of…
— George Washington
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A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.
— Thomas M. Disch
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I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I…
— Colson Whitehead
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I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.
— Nicole Brossard
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I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
— Ray Stevenson
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A nation that combines the America predilection towards violence, the American stockpile of weapons and the American lack of empthy for the earth's humiliated peoples…
— Vincent Harding
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predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he…
— Douglas Adams
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English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.
— John H. McWhorter
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It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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As a little boy, I apparently had a predilection for undoing latch gates, running up pathways and ringing doorbells - and then running off again…
— Ronald Frame
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Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with…
— Paul Hawken
Who Wrote These Predilection Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Predilection Quotes as follows: