I love comedies, and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. 'The Other Guys' was not lazy. — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
I think as you get older and things don't work as much as they used to, you've got to have a tendency… — Andre Reed Copy Share Image
When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be… — Maura Tierney Copy Share Image
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles. — Peter Singer 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
These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The… — Plato Copy Share Image
And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by… — Ludwig von Mises 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
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
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
I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
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
There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it,… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions. — Eamonn Coghlan Copy Share Image
People have a tendency to cast me more as lawyers and doctors and just rich guys, rich assholes basically, a lot of… — Barry Bostwick Copy Share Image
Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the… — Ludwig Lewisohn Copy Share Image
People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position. — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
