There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be...… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them,… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
There's a tendency for people who believe passionately in something to be so convinced of their rightness that if they just repeat… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
People have an annoying tendency to compare shoe prices with the cost of other things. They might say, 'Wow - those shoes… — Mimi Pond Copy Share Image
We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Capitalists have the tendency to move toward those countries in which there is plenty of labor available and at which labor is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not;… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
We must continue to liberalise the single market, cut red tape and basically create a digital single market. We have not completed… — Alexander Stubb Copy Share Image
The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that… — Peter Lilley Copy Share Image
I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were,… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small,… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem… — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes 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
As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
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