My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows. — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by… — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have… — George Pattison 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
I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind,… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species. — Hugh Lofting Copy Share Image
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve. — T. D. Jakes 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
