There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can… — Alexander Wang Copy Share Image
The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
“Football Coaches do play football matches; their attitudes toward the game in times of tendencies of losing can cause a change in… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before… — William Inge Copy Share Image
There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or… — Taylor Branch Copy Share Image
Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from… — George Allen Copy Share Image
I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying:… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake,… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his… — William James Copy Share Image
There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way. — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
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