Propensities Define Quotes & Sayings

Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal. — David Blankenhorn

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character. — David R. Ellis

The tribe of clerks was an obvious one ... the junior clerks of flash houses
young gentlemen with tight coats, bright boots, well-oiled hair, and supercilious lips. Setting aside a certain dapperness of carriage, which may be termed [i]deskism[/i] for want of a better word, the manner of these persons seemed to be an exact fac-simile of what had been the perfection of [i]bon ton[/i] about twelve or eighteen months before. — Edgar Allan Poe

A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired. — Adam-Troy Castro

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to) — William Shakespeare

I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique. — Matt Wagner

Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities as part of its broader goal of creating new subjects wedded to consumerism, risk-free relationships, and the destruction of the social state. — Henry Giroux

Let's put the principles of the kingdom of God has our priority — Sunday Adelaja

I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight. — Monica Lewinsky

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. — Jules Renard

My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times. — Misty Upham

But don't be worried about our competitors because they're never going to send us any money anyway. Let's be worried about our customers and stay heads-down focused."15 — Brad Stone

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. — Dorothy Rowe

When you can love yourself, then your heart is open to give and receive love. — Daveda Gruber

No, we cannot change
the mistakes we've left behind.
But there's one thing we can do -
one thing I must do -
we can choose not
to repeat them. — Holly Bodger