(186 quotes found)
“It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.”
Deborah Tannen
“I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.”
Brian Eno
“I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot.”
Woody Allen
“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”
Jane Addams
“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
William Howard Taft
“Wherefore, Nietzsche concluded that the chief characteristic of a moral system was its tendency to perpetuate itself unchanged, and to destroy all who questioned it or denied it”
Henry Louis Mencken
“A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l”
John Allen Paulos
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.”
James Fenimore Cooper
“[The customers] had a tendency to stop shopping when the baskets became too full or too heavy.”
Sylvan N. Goldman
“There is an attempt to make a show, a political show, to give the impression that there is a tendency from the Israelis to move in the accurate way.”
Yasser Arafat
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