Top 24 Predilections Quotes
#1. Until comparatively recently in its history, Maycomb County was so cut off from the rest of the nation that some of its citizens, unaware of the South's political predilections over the past ninety years, still voted Republican.
Harper Lee
#2. Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and must be ... We inhabit a world of human differences and predilections, but the extrapolation of these facts to theories of rigid limits is ideology.
Stephen Jay Gould
#3. Strike knew how deeply ingrained was the belief that the evil conceal their dangerous predilections for violence and domination. When they wear them like bangles for all to see, the gullible populace laughs, calls it a pose, or finds it strangely attractive.
Robert Galbraith
#4. Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment until finding the evidence overwhelmingly persuasive, the method beyond reproach, the results replicable, and the analyses sound.
George M. Dennison
#5. I love reading another reader's list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.
T. S. Eliot
#6. If we analyse the supernova data by assuming the Copernican principle is correct and get out something unphysical, I think we should start questioning the Copernican principle ... . Whatever our theoretical predilections, they will in the end have to give way to the observational evidence.
George F. R. Ellis
#7. The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.
John Hope Franklin
#8. I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections.
Jed S. Rakoff
#9. For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.
James Payn
#10. No one tells you this, but when you enter your thirties, you will find vaguely in-shape bodies ridiculously attractive as opposed to your Chris Hemsworth predilections of the past. This is not to say that ripped dudes turn you off.
Phoebe Robinson
#11. In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.
Adolph Gottlieb
#12. At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.
William O. Douglas
#13. The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing.
Aleister Crowley
#14. You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.
Tom Stoppard
#15. People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.
Antonia Fraser
#16. I feel that a book is never written by the writer alone
it's written by him and everyone around him be it directly or indirectly
Subhasis Das
#17. It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
John Henry Jowett
#18. The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.
Walt Whitman
#19. Some of our old ways are better forgotten, but not all of them.
Nnedi Okorafor
#20. Okonomy means favorite. And Yaki means fried. So it is your favorite things - fried.
Yoshio Saito
#21. One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.
James Purefoy
#22. Hillary Clinton is unworthy of being the President of the United States; she has done nothing important that is good
Dennis Prager
#23. The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural selection, and more and more of the weaklings and the unfit survive, we must increase the standard, mental and physical, of parentage.
Karl Pearson
