Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump's natural tendency in all things is to resist any "deal" where he doesn't get to set the terms. — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
As much as we - in a revisionist way - tell ourselves that we've always been a righteous country with a couple… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
At the peak of the so-called great success of neoliberal economics, in 2007, right before the crash, non-supervisory workers were at wages… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother -… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image