Propensity famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.
-- Ambrose Bierce

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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
-- Benjamin Haydon

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After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.
-- Felix Frankfurter

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I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.
-- Miguel

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The propensity to do good things is a choice.
-- Shaun Cassidy

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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
-- Vikram Seth

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The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.
-- Ron Fairly

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Life should be all about change. But some things shouldn't change. And my three-piece suits are one of those things.
I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.
A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man.
Good and great are seldom in the same man.
You got responsibilities when youâ€™re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or whoâ€™re you going to lead?
That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.