Quotes of: Susceptibility Keyword

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

Roger Ebert

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Will Ferrell

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Linda Ellerbee

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

Howard Zinn

The biggest food-related risk in pregnancy is listeria. It's a dangerous bacteria, to which pregnant women are especially susceptible, that can lead to miscarriage or stillbirth.

Emily Oster

It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

Elfriede Jelinek

The Sniper must not be susceptible to emotions such as anxiety and remorse,

Crosshairs on the Kill Zone: American Combat Snipers, Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom

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

Freedom

It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven...

To the Lighthouse

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

The Star Rover

When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.

Voice of Reason

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

Samuel Wilson

A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to it.

Louise L. Hay

All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more than in health, susceptible to the influence of particular states of the mind.

Lysander Spooner

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

Giacomo Casanova

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

Henry Rollins

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Peggy Noonan

There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.

David Mitchell

Despite their displays of bravado, young boys can be peculiarly susceptible to atmosphere ("Between Four Yews")

Best New Horror 24

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

The Lighthouse