Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.
Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
The weaker sex, to piety more prone.
An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death. '
The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.
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.
I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I can’t be generous with time, but I try to be generous with affection. I’m really lucky to be able to be in some of these situations and it feels really nice to be able to take people along with me for the ride. Oh, and I’m a pain in the ass as well.
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.
The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.
I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible.
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.
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.