I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite. — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something." — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that. — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring… — Michael Grant 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
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred,… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I mean people are really crazy about minor decrements down. And then, if you act on them, then you get into reciprocation… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to… — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you'll be… — Johnny Miller Copy Share Image
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation… — Mihai Nadin Copy Share Image
In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
...I do like the low frequencies. It's from years and years of observing audiences when they hear a lower frequency coming from… — Bennie Maupin Copy Share Image
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
It made me very sad, that question. Sad and defeated. Because I knew she knew why I was thinking about that woman-I… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
