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"History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy." »George W. Bush
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"“As for your ignorance - do not fear it. Instead be humbled by it and tend to it."" »Steve Maraboli
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"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there." »Herb Caen
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"Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow." »Frances Hodgson Burnett
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"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." »Abraham Maslow
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"Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil." »Hippocrates
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"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man." »Bertrand Russell
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"Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase." »Epictetus
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"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase." »Epictetus
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"Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky." »Fran Lebowitz
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"All such distinctions as tend to set the orders of the state at a distance from each other are equally subversive of liberty and concord." »Livy
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"Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success." »Joyce
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"The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him." »Edward R. Murrow
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"The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years." »John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)
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"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well." »Albert Einstein
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"It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state." »Thomas Elliot
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"It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state." »T.S. Elliot
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"I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." »Detronius Arbiter
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"Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation." »Lewis S Feuer
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"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today." »Dale Carnegie
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"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves." »Dale Carnegie
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"When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established." »Norman Vincent Peale
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"The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves." »Laurens Van der Post
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"We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." »From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
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"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." »Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.
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"We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." »Gaius Petronius
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"Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings." »Dave Barry
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