Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions. — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group. — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.” I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.” There was another pause. . .… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
There must not be one law for the Jew and another for the Arabs…In saying this, I do not assume that there… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
With Islamophobic tendencies in Europe and North America it is quite possible that Islamic leaders could be charged with 'political genocide'. An… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
