These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My tendency is to be the guy in the back, even though I often end up being the guy in the front. — Balthazar Getty Copy Share Image
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
I love comedies, and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. 'The Other Guys' was not lazy. — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.” I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.” There was another pause. . .… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa… — Jack D. Schwager Copy Share Image
The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies… — Leon V. DePoncins 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
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back. — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image