Top 158 Propensity Quotes & Sayings

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

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

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. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.

Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.

REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that's where the propensity lies.

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.

If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

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.

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.

There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders, into intemperate and pernicious resolutions.

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

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

Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.

After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.

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

You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories.

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

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

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.

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

What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.

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

If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

We never fought for the popular vote. There was no economical reason, and there was no reason based off the system of our Constitution to do so. We needed to win 270, and to do so we needed to win in certain states, and we needed to target registered voters that had a low propensity to vote and propensity to vote for Donald Trump if they come.

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

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

When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

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

The people who get up earliest in the morning have the highest propensity to vote UKIP. I'm being absolutely serious about that.

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

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

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

Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to the poor, they have a propensity to consume that's much higher than the wealthy, though I wish they would talk to my wife about that; she seems to have a propensity to consume.

I really believe our society has this propensity to punish.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.