You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.… — Andrei Sakharov 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
Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency. — John Green Copy Share Image
If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The concept of karma is a beautiful concept in Sanskrit. The whole idea of karma is that every being has an innate… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds… — William James Copy Share Image
There is a natural and inviolable tendency in things to bloom into whatever they truly are in the core of their being.… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude… — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection. — Leonardo da Vinci 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
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people. — Jacques Verges Copy Share Image
When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
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