Tendency Towards Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a…
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin.…
— Gene Wilder
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It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less.…
— Paul Volcker
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Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression…
— Yukio Mishima
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Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice…
— Nelson Mandela
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What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this tremendous sense of…
— Russell Brand
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I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.
— Joan Miro
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I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was…
— Jack Dee
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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
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The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way…
— Terry Pratchett
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The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as…
— Amartya Sen
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There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work…
— Mao Zedong
Who Wrote These Tendency Towards Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Tendency Towards Quotes as follows: