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I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
Edgar Rice Burroughs— Chapter 5 (A Princess of Mars (1917))
And to some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.
george henry lewes— George Henry Lewes, The Spanish Drama (1846), Chapter III.
Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn’t take, their constant bickering and smallness, it’s like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don’t scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.
Donald Barthelme— “Aria”, conclusion
Dr. Roboy, in Litvak’s measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.
michael chabon— Chapter 39 (The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007))
E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As the light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.
— Virgil, Georgics (c. 29 BC), I, line 351. Sotheby's translation.
Shimla is a multi-hazard /multi-disaster prone City and it’s mainly because of its geo-climatic complexities and anthropogenic factors.
— Dr.M.P.Sood, in City Disaster Management Plan-Shimla, National Informatics Center, Shimla, 2012
I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.
william congreve— 1700 Lady Wishfort to Whitwell disguised as Sir Roland. The Way of the World, act 4, sc.12.
But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.
Edmund Spenser— 1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 2, stanza 23. buxom = 'yielding'.
Moreover, the entire international trading system is prone (from the lower echelons to top state officials) to corruption and bribery by foreign contractors.
michel chossudovsky— Chapter 12, The Post War Economic Destruction of Vietnam, p. 177
To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.
george henry lewes— Ch. 3 (The Spanish Drama (1846))
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,And lay them prone upon the earth and ceaseTo ponder on themselves, the while they stareAt nothing.
edna st. vincent millay— Sonnet XXII from The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923)
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— p. 38 (Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974))
The Poet had, who had made a show of attaching no importance to this literary game (though it gnawed at his heart that he himself had not written such beautiful letters, provoking replies even more beautiful), and having no one with whom to fall in love, had fallen in love with the letters themselves -- which, as Niketas remarked with a smile -- was not surprising, since in youth we are prone to fall in love with love.
Umberto Eco— Chapter 7, "Baudolino makes the Poet write love letters and poems to Beatrice"
The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers... That is also why in all countries women are more prone to utter prophecies.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— L 26 (Notebook L (1793-1796))
The major problems facing the development of products that are safer, less prone to error, and easier to use and understand are not technological: they are social and organizational.
donald norman— Ch. 10 (The Invisible Computer (1998))
There is no evidence that demonstrates a significant increase in the danger to children caused by pornography. A person who is prone to act on his fantasies will likely do so irrespective of the availability of pornography.
— Justice Duncan Shaw. Top B.C. court strikes down child-porn law, The National Post, January 16, 1999
History, sacred and profane, and the common experience of mankind teach that women of the character shown in this case are prone to make false accusations both of rape and of insult upon the slightest provocation for ulterior purposes.
James E. Horton— Memorandum Order granting a new trial in the case of the Scottsboro Boys (June 22, 1933).
Sardinians as a race are prone to a very non latin, almost celtic wistfulness and melancholy.
— Cadogan Guide, 2003
Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To rev'rence what is ancient, and can plead A course of long observance for its use, That even servitude, the worst of ills, Because deliver'd down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing!
william cowper— William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book V, line 298.
The weaker sex, to piety more prone
— Doomsday, Hour v, lv
What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride , which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife.
— Nikola Tesla, in My Inventions (1919)
A true hero, after the chivalrous mediaeval type, his [Champlain's] character was dashed largely with the spirit of romance. Though earnest, sagacious, and penetrating, he leaned to the marvellous; and the faith which was the life of his hard career was somewhat prone to overstep the bounds of reason and invade the domain of fancy.
francis parkman— Pt. II, Ch. 2
Moreover, the entire international trading system is prone (from the lower echelons to top state officials) to corruption and bribery by foreign contractors.
— Chapter 12, The Post War Economic Destruction of Vietnam, p. 177
