Top 100 Quotes About Prone
#1. My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#2. Legal immigration is a process. You learn everything about the people coming in. You find out how many of 'em are prone to vote Republican. You don't ask 'em this; you just learn.
Rush Limbaugh
#3. Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#4. They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded.
Holly Black
#5. When our lives are frantic and frenzied, we are more prone to anxiety, resentment, impatience, and irritability.
Kevin DeYoung
#6. Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err.
-Baron Vladimir
Frank Herbert
#8. America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we've been cursed with bright, shiny object disease and we don't want a cure. Not now. Not till we get our little taste, till our kids get theirs.
Heather Choate Davis
#9. I could have blamed it on the intoxication of youth.
Others might find fault on just intoxication.
My parents would say that it was an act of plain stupidity.
Reality would point out that it was Thursday night at college and the youth are prone to err.
Mara Joaquin
#10. As much as agreeable people may love us, they often hate conflict even more. Their desire to please others and preserve harmony makes them prone to backing down instead of sticking up for us. "Because
Adam M. Grant
#11. I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.
Caroline Knapp
#12. Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regulators and, above all, for investors because they have been prone to abuse by stock manipulators.
Gary Weiss
#13. I, for instance, have a great deal of AMOUR PROPRE. I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#14. The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.
Barry Marshall
#15. Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.
John Updike
#16. We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.
Friedrich Schiller
#18. In the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.
Hermann Broch
#19. I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometimes I don't think.
Tom Cullen
#20. How great is the frailty of human nature which is ever prone to evil! Today you confess your sins and tomorrow you again commit the sins which you confessed.
Thomas A Kempis
#21. My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.
Mickey Rivers
#22. Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
Jim McMahon
#23. The longer we live, the more our experience widens; the less prone are we to judge our neighbor's conduct.
Charlotte Bronte
#24. The older we get, the less prone we are to putting off what we really want to do, therefore you will be able to seek out new directions later.
Wendy Lustbader
#26. When it comes to addictions, we tend to divide humanity into two groups: those who are prone toward addictions and those who aren't. The reality, of course, is very different. All human beings have already fallen into sin.
Edward T. Welch
#27. Pragmatists are sometimes more prone to illusion than dreamers; when they fall for something, they fall hard, not knowing how to protect themselves, while we dreamers are more practiced in surviving the disillusionment that follows when we wake up from our dreams.
Azar Nafisi
#28. I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the bones in her back were, far too sliver-prone, far too light to support a pair of wings.
Connie May Fowler
#29. We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.
Charles Spurgeon
#30. Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.
Thomas Huxley
#32. As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.
Jill Sobule
#33. Alcatraz actually knows a person named Brandon Sanderson. That man, however, is a fantasy writer and is therefore prone to useless bouts of delusion in literary form.
Brandon Sanderson
#34. So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.
Sun Tzu
#35. People with a distinctly displayed fear of failure are prone to do their work well and with good coordination only in a case when their task require simple skills
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Manipulating strings in C or C++ is error prone. Four common errors are unbounded string copies, off-by-one errors, null-termination errors, and string truncation.
Robert C. Seacord
#37. I'm prone to getting dark circles under my eyes when I'm tired, so I l use cover-up and instantly feel more confident.
Bridgit Mendler
#38. If you are prone to eating too much and in a chaotic way, bone broth is your cure. It will literally feed your body with many nutrients while making you feel less hunger when you shouldn't crave food.
Greg Cleland
#39. So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#40. Obesity researchers now use a quasi-scientific term to describe exactly this condition: they refer to the "obesigenic" environment in which we now live, meaning an environment that is prone to turning lean people into fat ones.
Gary Taubes
#41. We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.
Peter Benchley
#42. In the end, a man turns into what he thinks he is, however large or small. It is the reason why certain people are prone to colds and catastrophe. And why others can dance on water.
Marisha Pessl
#43. OUR LIVES ARE MADE OF RISKS AND REWARDS. OUR ENDEAVOURS, LOVES, AND HOPES ARE ALL PRONE TO THE GREAT RISK OF FAILURE. YET TO RISK NOTHING FOR FEAR OF FAILURE IS TO LIVE IN A SHUTTERED BOX IN A WORLD WHOSE WONDERS YOU WILL NEVER KNOW.
Mark T. Barnes
#44. We have been told mankind will be judged on the intent of the heart. No mortal can see into the depth of another. There is only One who can. His is the role of a judge-not ours. If you are prone to criticize or judge, remember, we never see the target a man aims at in life. We see only what he hits.
H. Burke Peterson
#45. Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.
Dana Stabenow
#46. When I got my success, I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes.
Jill Scott
#47. It didn't help when Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael made his notorious comment to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "The position of women in SNCC is prone.
Ariel Levy
#48. prone to fits of 'immoderate arrogance'.
Anonymous
#49. All women were prone to some bad habits. As were we men. But as a man, I have to say that women were more of a struggle to understand than we men.
Michele Renae
#50. Scientific deductions had their limits, since such reasoning required hard facts. Intuition, on the other hand, was prone to fill in the voids between,
Arthur M. Doweyko
#51. Without Christ, every woman has intense insecurities. Unless we find our identity in Him, we Christian women can be just as prone to insecurities about our appearance as unbelievers. To Christ, the most beautiful person on earth is the one making preparation to meet the Groom.
Beth Moore
#52. And since, through lack of vocation or from habit, [Julie] was prone to confuse pity with boredom, she felt herself practically a prisoner ...
Colette
#53. I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.
Michael Sheen
#54. The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
Sarah Bernhardt
#55. People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#56. The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
Dambisa Moyo
#57. The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.
Scott Adams
#58. Going too fast is one of the mistakes all negotiators are prone to making.
Chris Voss
#59. I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#60. I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
Wislawa Szymborska
#61. Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
Amy Lowell
#62. Google chrome is not safe. The browser is prone to hacks at Starbucks.
David Chiles
#63. No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
Lord Byron
#64. Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.
Patrick Cockburn
#65. I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
Rupert Sheldrake
#66. The minute you think you have gotten on God's good side by your own behavior, you are naturally prone to demonize those who haven't.
Jefferson Bethke
#67. I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.
Young-Ha Kim
#68. It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body.
Sathya Sai Baba
#69. I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;
but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.
William Shakespeare
#70. But we have arrived at a glistening, smug day when nobody much sins, and those that do are prone to call it something else.
Calvin Miller
#71. The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
Eric Maisel
#72. Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader process of peer review and institutionalized skepticism are designed to ensure that, eventually, the best ideas prevail.
Chris Mooney
#73. One of the quirkier cognitive disorders to which software project management is prone.
Charles Stross
#74. Since men's nature is prone to hypocrisy, it is easy for Satan to persuade them that the true worship of God consists in ceremonies and outward discipline; men
John Calvin
#75. I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.
Terry Gilliam
#76. The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?
Pope Gregory I
#77. We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact.
Walter Kirn
#78. Restless at home, and ever prone to range.
John Dryden
#79. Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
William Shatner
#80. Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.
Helen Fisher
#81. Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.
Colin Wilson
#82. Tools that make life simpler ... tend to make life more hectic, and more prone to disruptions.
John-Talmage Mathis
#83. No one around me was doing anything, even making conversation. They were all just perfectly inert, laid out prone or supine as if submitting to autopsy or dissection. Only the dead or the lowest of species can bask, I'm convinced.
Joshua Cohen
#84. As boom- and bust-prone as high finance always has been and remains, the greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall Street It's the growing federal debt (and weakening dollar) being enacted by those Washington politicians - the ones who want to protect us from Wall Street.
Tony Blankley
#85. I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.
Agatha Christie
#86. Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.
Mary MacLane
#87. I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
#88. My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.
Michel De Montaigne
#89. But the feeling of scarcity does thrive in shame-prone cultures that are deeply steeped in comparison and fractured by disengagement.
Brene Brown
#90. Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think
My charges false and all too rashly made.
Ovid
#91. In our desire to make Christ known and to increase the influence of the church, we are many times prone to think that Christians and the church can be made popular with the unbelieving world. This is a grave mistake on the part of the church.
Billy Graham
#92. We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.
David Sarnoff
#93. I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.
Marian Keyes
#95. They're similar to the human idea of the sandman. They used to help people sleep. Now they're more prone to creating nightmares that end in death. Lucky's description of the dream weavers.
Jami Brumfield
#97. Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.
John Carroll
#98. As for [Amiri] Baraka, he and I have disagreements. I mean, he becomes a demagogue when there's an audience. He's a nice guy in private. I mean I like the guy; he's a terrific writer. I've published two of his books. Baraka is one of these fundamentalists who is prone to idol worship.
Ishmael Reed
#99. In Scotland, I have a huge barn full of woodworking tools. I love working with my hands. I basically just make myself bleed a lot. I'm very accident-prone.
Greg Wise
#100. People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
Helen Keller
