I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes itdifficult… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall… — David Banner Copy Share Image
A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
There's quite a bit of pressure, but it's a lot of fun, it's enjoyable. I think one of the biggest things is… — Gerad Adams Copy Share Image
But though a funded debt is not in the first instance, an absolute increase of Capital, or an augmentation of real wealth;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential. — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders… — James Florio Copy Share Image
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy----- He is just as glorified… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my… — Lauren Lee Smith Copy Share Image
When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
