It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When well-divided property has disappeared and Capitalism has taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It's very frustrating if you've never had an experience and somebody comes up to you and says, "I've just been on a… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school.… — Kordell Stewart Copy Share Image
History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I'm getting ready for a movie, let's just say my diet is 'The Antisocial Diet.' I don't go to restaurants. I… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through the practice of devotion to God, I was coming to learn that preserving loving relations in this world required much forgiveness,… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
[G]overnment can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Many of us have a tendency to deny any negative feelings. We judge them as "bad" or "unenlightened" when, in fact, they… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster… — Pablo Schreiber Copy Share Image
In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you… — Mooji Copy Share Image
As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal… — Katherine Heigl Copy Share Image
One thing I have a tendency to do is not write choruses, or write choruses that have different words. The first chorus… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
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