Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in… — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
We have progressed in a technological sense, but I'm not so sure whether we have progressed in a civilizational matter - the… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he,… — Lena Olin Copy Share Image
It is more difficult to research women's lives than it is men's. There has always been a tendency - race notwithstanding -… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
It's really crucial to achieve that balance with a film like this, cause it is unique and witty and then there's the… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to indoctrinate them with facts, which they are supposed to… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment. — Lloyd Paul Stryker Copy Share Image
[G]overnment can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur -… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image
The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War. — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to really stuff things — like, I don't really express certain feelings. — Jack Osbourne Copy Share Image
Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa… — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency to occasionally urinate… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image