#prone

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

#blue #blue sky #build #clear #dam

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#before #i #i am #loneliness #me

I'm much more prone to feeling down a lot. I just feel sluggish and unmotivated. ↗

— Sean Astin

#feel #feeling #i #just #lot

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

#democratic #faith #his #idealist #leadership

Creative people are more prone to depression. ↗

— Adam Ant

#creative people #depression #more #people #prone

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#bad #contagious #generalize #good #more

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

— Herman Kahn

#intrinsically #moral #more #most #neither

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#capacity #develop #devoid #discover #evil

In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#body #body image #bought #diet #every

When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#against #agree #because #become #come