Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age,… — Katherine Helmond Copy Share Image
I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
A tendency for the male perspective to dominate responses to films, whether that's commissions or how a film is presented in the… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP. — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that… — Jim Talent Copy Share Image
There's something with actors in their 40s, I don't know - there's this tendency with these guys, either they're not where they… — Kurt Voss Copy Share Image
Most people early achieve and later intensify a tendency to process new and disconfirming information so that any original conclusion remains intact.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa… — Jack D. Schwager Copy Share Image
The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I felt that there could be some anger. There could be some frustration that he has the tendency to take over the… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school.… — John Bradley-West Copy Share Image
Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American. — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds… — William James Copy Share Image
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to always test people's love. 'I want to see how badly I have to behave before you'll leave… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
![“The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be taught that 'writing is rewriting' - maybe more of a sense than was pervasive 10 years ago that the first or second pass of a story is sufficient. That is an idea that is easily…” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/249/george-saunders-317_blogging_the-only-thing-i-might-have-noticed-and_2019915.jpg)
