As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur -… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image
One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people,… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
As a friend at a major American newspaper said to me when I complained about this tendency in his own paper, "You… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Jesus resisted the temptation of outrage and the quick fix of condemnation. He spent most of his time preparing wineskins before pouring… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil… — Diosdado Macapagal Copy Share Image
I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills,… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar:… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
At the peak of the so-called great success of neoliberal economics, in 2007, right before the crash, non-supervisory workers were at wages… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most… — Arlene Dahl Copy Share Image
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The span of a man is three score and 10, or thereabouts. As most Americans are not especially keen on availing themselves… — Theodore Beale Copy Share Image
The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We… — Ahmad Shah Massoud Copy Share Image
