Propensity Quotes (page 2)

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• ignorance
• animal
• sentimental

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. William John Wills

• dog
• play
• afforded

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery. Thorstein Veblen

• nature
• good
• humanity

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

• reality
• confidence
• women

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

• political
• japanese
• future

When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue. Yoshihiko Noda

• historical
• stockings
• significant

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule. David Coleman

• men
• animal
• common

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. Adam Smith

• good
• choices
• doing

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

• powerful
• heart
• humanity

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

• rejection
• genius
• caring

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive. Ryan Kwanten

• good
• ideas
• suppress

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. Carl Sagan

• materiality
• probabilities
• willful

Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker. Marek Belka

• mind
• look
• mindfulness

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. William Winwood Reade

• respect
• personality
• beautiful

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people. Connie Nielsen

• women
• single
• strong

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