Quotes of: Prone Keyword

An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.

The Blind Assassin

But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.

Bo Jackson

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

Peter Steele

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Irving Babbitt

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

Charles Duhigg

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

Rupert Sheldrake

[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

Heartless

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Robert Johnson

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

Peter Benchley

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

Herman Kahn

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.

Heather Mills

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

Dolly Parton

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

Augustus Hare

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

Freedom

Her clear conscience mocked rumour’s mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

Fasti

We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.

Against a Dark Background

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

Matthew Arnold

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

Sarah Bernhardt

I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible.

Steven Curtis Chapman

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching something completely mindless and mundane that I don't have to follow so closely.

Billy Burke