Predisposes Quotes

#1. One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.

Mikhail Sholokhov

#2. BRCA-1, a gene that strongly predisposes humans to breast and ovarian cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#3. Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.

Carl Hagelin

#4. Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

Alexander Walker

#6. I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.

Elizabeth Edwards

#7. DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities

Eric Jerome Dickey

#8. The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love

Helen Shucman

#9. God did not put you on this earth simplest to be any person's mom.

Heather McDonald

#10. Need someone to talk to? I could tug my ear right now.

Kiera Cass

#11. Hamlet would worry about having nothing to worry about if he had nothing to worry about,

Jasper Fforde

#12. At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#13. A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith,

Pascal Boyer

#14. We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday's films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.

Daphne Du Maurier

#15. Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

Honore De Balzac

#16. The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

Richard Winters

#17. Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.

Erica Jong

#18. If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

Madame De Stael

#19. Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith is a recent phenomenon. At the same time, neither education nor the lack of it predisposes one to faith.

Marilynne Robinson

#20. Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine ...

Edgar Allan Poe