Tends Toward Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
— Hosea Ballou
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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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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
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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
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Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
— Robert A. Heinlein
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My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends…
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that…
— Ben Stiller
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It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And…
— Lisa Unger
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
— Andre Gide
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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be…
— Robert Henri
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Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can…
— Frank Herbert
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Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you…
— Wendell Berry
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That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
— Thomas Howard
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What you do when eyes are averted, curtains are drawn shut, the expected are delayed, wife and kids vacate for leisurely merriments, when doors are…
— Roy Valenzula
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What you do when eyes are averted, curtains are drawn shut, the expected are delayed, wife and kids vacate for leisurely merriments, when doors are…
— Roy Valenzuela
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History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence
— Camille Paglia
Who Wrote These Tends Toward Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Tends Toward Quotes as follows: