Tends Quotes

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A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with or which dampens… — Ezra Taft Benson
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that… — James McCosh
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of… — Douglass North
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes. — Richard Allen Epstein
If you want your ministry to have â€˜itâ€™, more important than anything else weâ€™ve discussed, you must have â€˜itâ€™. When it has filtered through your… — Craig Groeschel
My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or… — James Ensor
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival". — Robert A. Heinlein
Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available. — Neal A. Maxwell
Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him… — Elsa Morante
The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have… — Katharine Hamnett
I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog. — Judd Apatow
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books. — A. Edward Newton
Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent… — Eric Hoffer
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends… — David Abram
The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly. — Isabel Paterson
The end of all motion is its beginning; for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from which begins to be moved… — Johannes Scotus Eriugena
In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly… — Stephen Potter
A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to… — Aldous Huxley
I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past. — Ron Chernow
Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence… — Nikola Tesla

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