Prone Quotes

236 quotes by 206 authors

Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional… — Martin Filler
Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates. — Helen Fisher
I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled… — Young-Ha Kim
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did… — Diane Setterfield
I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and… — Augusten Burroughs
Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big… — John Grogan
Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Ladies. Large masses of girls are often prone to this salutation. I hate being mollified with this unsolicited "ladies" business. I know we're all women.… — Sloane Crosley
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when… — Eric Hoffer
Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled,… — Shannon Hale
and standing before me a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest heaving, her eyes… — Meg Cabot
I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like… — Caroline Knapp
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during… — E. O. Wilson
Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of… — Steven Pinker
My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table. — Brandon Sanderson
Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on… — Margaret Atwood
The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has a fiery heart… — Christopher Moore
Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your… — Stephen King
Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East… — Zadie Smith
Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that… — Jane Austen

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