Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that this fusion of terrorist and Muslim feeds virulent forms of Islamophobia, which is also encouraged by such… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in… — Robert Eastaway Copy Share Image
Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ...… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The two tendencies are antithetical in significant respects. These are distinctions that should be kept in mind, however one feels that the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right… — Gore Vidal 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
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?"… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean 'make money' you need to be part of the… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to… — Jo Brand 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
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