Tends Quotes

707 quotes by 611 authors

Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control… — W. Cleon Skousen
This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even… — Harry S. Truman
The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive. — Ratan Tata
As bank customers, we tend to believe that we can have both perfect security for our money, drawing on it whenever we want and never… — Ron Paul
It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends… — Karl Jaspers
The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the… — Edward Bernays
I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think… — Michael Stipe
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal — Carol Ann Duffy
Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and… — Sharon Olds
One tends to write beyond what's needed — James Schuyler
When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again -… — Elvis Stojko
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole… — Lawrence Kohlberg
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. — Jennifer Weiner
Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that… — Nikola Tesla
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism,… — E F Schumacher
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. — Washington Irving
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or… — Heber J. Grant
I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have… — Al Jarreau
When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that.… — Ross Macdonald
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends… — Alexandre Kojeve

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