Quotes About Propensity

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. "And yours," he replied with a smile,"is willfully to misunderstand them.

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

The human propensity to having opinions must, I guess, have started as a pretty useful evolutionary tool.

But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud.

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell this ship. Your talents were underrated.

For EARTH which is an intelligence hath a voice and a propensity to speak in all her parts.

its author's enviable knack for assessing the significance of what everybody else had already seen and his congenital propensity for inflating the results into a speculative rigmarole that nobody else would ever think or could even follow.

The United States is often criticized as interventionist, but in fact America's traditional propensity has been more isolationist—willing to act forcefully in the world when absolutely necessary, but preferring to be unencumbered.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

I've always had an addictive nature.

Theres a propensity for me to bumble about as if Ive just jumped out of a PG Woodhouse novel, like a provincial vicar whos just been hit across the side of the head with a cricket ball at some speed.

I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and betting his kids' college money at the track, but otherwise a solid dude.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

No better is the propensity, very popular nowadays, to brand supporters of other ideologies as lunatics. Psychiatrists

I'm going to get into a funk, because that's what I do. I will feel put off, and then I will put on that ratty robe of rejection and wear it all day long. But I don't want to keep being a slave to my runaway emotions and assumptions. I don't want my days to be dictated by the moods of other people. And I really don't want the rejections of my past feeding my propensity to feel rejected today.

These test results were bewildering to Jack's mother, Alice, who considered him to be an inattentive child; in her view, Jack's propensity for daydreaming made him immature for his age.

lot of agility, adaptability, a natural propensity toward curiosity, an insatiable appetite for that and this and this and that!

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

No sé si alguna vez les ha pasado a ustedes pero el Jardín Botánico siempre ha tenido una agradable propensión a los sueños a que los insectos suban por las piernas y la melancolía baje por los brazos hasta que uno cierra los puños y la atrapa.

blushing propensity should correlate with measures of people's interpersonal concerns.