Prone Quotes

236 quotes by 209 authors

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be… — Bobby Knight
To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry… — A. Lee Martinez
Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who… — Charles Studd
It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why?… — Sathya Sai Baba
The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it is better to… — Frederic Farrar
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At… — Epictetus
But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction. — Aristotle
We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate… — Orson F. Whitney
The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone. — A. E. Housman
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. — Lord Byron
Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone — Bertrand Russell
People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to… — Sonja Lyubomirsky
What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants… — James Cook
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to… — Nick Flynn
I first studied to be a preacher, but decided that I was too prone to tell big stories. Then I studied Blackstone for a while… — Isaac Cline
The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price… — Bruce Kovner
If you were to press your heart close up against somebody elseâ€™s heart eventually your hearts will start beating at the same time. And two… — Andrea Gibson
Show me a novelist â€“ or, indeed, a reader â€“ who wasnâ€™t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and Iâ€™llâ€¦… — Charlotte Mendelson
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored. — Bjarne Stroustrup
Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often… — Dana Stabenow

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