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
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let… — Matt Fraction 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
I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it. — George Saunders 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
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation.… — African Spir Copy Share Image
I do have someone that I work with and she is amazing and I definitely don't have unmitigated abusive tendencies towards her.… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
My feeling is that anarchists have to think in terms of a specific. I think the dispersal of anarchists all over the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you'll be… — Johnny Miller 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
The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
“Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: "For heaven's sake,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
