We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age,… — Katherine Helmond Copy Share Image
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician. — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
Why is it that we have a tendency to lazily assume other Christians have been the kind of dedicated, motivated, responsible, knowledgeable… — Len Smith Copy Share Image
Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals.… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any… — Nur Muhammad Taraki 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
