I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and… — Euripides Copy Share Image
A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means… — Simon Soloveychik Copy Share Image
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation, — Jeff Weiner Copy Share Image
It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are… — Bob Gill Copy Share Image
We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help,… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what… — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
As an advocate to end violence against women, I have come to learn that the shame surrounding domestic violence is a barrier… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I think the big problem is you have a vicious cycle of wealth and power in America that's just gotten completely out… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The vicious cycle that is bringing down European states is not going to hit us [the USA], at least not for a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53) — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods -… — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
I had to fight hard for everything. I wanted to get out. I want to take my destiny into my own hands… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of… — Benjamin Hooks Copy Share Image
I was there in Washington in the '90s. It was pretty bad then. It's much worse now [in 2015]. And that vicious… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the… — John Dear Copy Share Image
I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vicious cycle of violence is real. But if people simply stopped listening to their ignorant parents, their biased religions, their corrupt… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become… — Jedediah Purdy Copy Share Image
People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a… — Gagan Narang Copy Share Image
I just feel like why spend all my time doing something that makes me unhappy just to spend my time off thinking… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Women need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
![“The vicious cycle that is bringing down European states is not going to hit us [the USA], at least not for a while, at the level of the federal government. The same cannot be said of state and local governments.” quote by Michael Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f4d/michael-lewis-705_cycles_the-vicious-cycle-that-is-bringing-down_1302704.jpg)
![“I was there in Washington in the '90s. It was pretty bad then. It's much worse now [in 2015]. And that vicious cycle is you've got again big corporations, executives, Wall Street, very wealthy individuals in both parties who are calling the shots.” quote by Robert Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/33b/robert-reich-1333_big-corporations_i-was-there-in-washington-in-the-90s-it_2519196.jpg)
