Tends Quotes
707 quotes by 611 authors
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Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's…
— J. William Fulbright
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Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.
— Richard Hugo
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My experience says that if you put out a lot of personal work that's good, it tends to attract high dollar commercial work. But to…
— Chase Jarvis
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still…
— Lord Acton
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Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate…
— Norman Cousins
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Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.
— Herbert Agar
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The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also…
— Richard Dawkins
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For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial…
— Kofi Annan
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In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before…
— Pope Francis
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Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to…
— Adi Shankara
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The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down to the least…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition, target only victims…
— Massad Ayoob
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The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing…
— Aldo Leopold
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Films have been my only passion in life. I have always been proud of making films and will continue taking pride in all my films.…
— Yash Chopra
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I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
— T.H. White
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.
— Hans F. Sennholz
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The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be…
— Matt LeBlanc
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This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all…
— Christian Slater
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