A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating… — Betty White Copy Share Image
Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and… — James Otis Copy Share Image
There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I think as you get older and things don't work as much as they used to, you've got to have a tendency… — Andre Reed Copy Share Image
There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image