That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That person has to be accountable for himself. I think thats what we have to do in society today is to be… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I have a lot of pot tendencies. I'm always late, I laugh for no reason, I watch Jeopardy! with the sound off… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
There seems to be this tendency toward denigrating romantic comedies as of late because it becomes something sort of cheesy or whatever.… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
We do Him [God] honor in our pledge of allegiance, in all our public ceremonies. There's nothing wrong with that. It is… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Problems are hidden opportunities and constraints can actually boost creativity. If you have some crazy ideas in your mind, and that people… — Martin Villeneuve Copy Share Image
“Extroverts are more likely to take a quick-and-dirty approach to problem-solving, trading accuracy for speed, making increasing numbers of mistakes as they… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From… — Howard Bloom Copy Share Image
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma. — Jean Danielou Copy Share Image
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement,… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I understand your higher and lower tendencies. There is something beyond all of this nonsense. There is a wonderful glitter that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father. — Patty Hearst Copy Share Image
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
If you had always been free to learn, you would follow your natural tendency to find out as fully as possible about… — Grace Llewellyn Copy Share Image
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon,… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
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