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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog. -- Judd Apatow
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror. -- Anne Roiphe
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. -- Charles Darwin
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. -- Hugo Black
It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious. -- Peter McWilliams
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. -- Richard DeVos
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. -- Carl Sagan
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. -- Isaac Newton
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. -- Bertrand Russell
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate. -- Herb Caen
I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning. -- Alex Trebek
The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
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 society. -- Lawrence Kohlberg
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. -- Samuel Johnson
It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal. -- Johnny Galecki
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving. -- Dan Millman
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating. -- Alan Kay
You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore. -- Robert Duvall
When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. -- Bruce Feiler
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of. -- Anita Brookner
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. -- Maria Montessori
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. -- Sydney Madwed
I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent. -- Rivers Cuomo
Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist. -- Nikola Tesla
Evil perpetually tends to disappear. -- Herbert Spencer
Hurt tends to drown out sorry. -- John Green
Thought tends to collect in pools. -- Wallace Stevens
absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely. -- Gertrude Himmelfarb
Historical tends to be my bailiwick. -- Megan Chance
Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply. -- Stephen Hawking
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. -- Peter HÃ¸eg
Power tends to get confused with repression. -- Olivia Wilde
Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment. -- Marcel Proust
Data that is loved tends to survive. -- Kurt Bollacker
One tends to write beyond what's needed. -- James Schuyler
One tends to write beyond what's needed -- James Schuyler
Quality tends to fan out like waves. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Good rock music always tends to be around. -- Dave Davies
All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient. -- Ludwig von Mises
In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism. -- Edith Hamilton
Kissing tends to bring on woolgathering, even amnesia. -- Faith Baldwin
The imaginary is what tends to become real. -- Andre Breton
Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently. -- Ricky Van Veen
Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations -- David Myers
The death of an illusion tends to disconcert. -- Roger Zelazny
Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt. -- Craig Ferguson
Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. -- Herbert Agar
Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye. -- Taylor Swift
Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion. -- T. S. Eliot
Winning tends to heal uneasiness and promote job security. -- Selena Roberts
Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice. -- Susan Meissner
A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team. -- John Katzenbach
Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people. -- Chuck Klosterman
My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted. -- Anne Lamott
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it. -- Jamie Zawinski
I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you. -- David Cronenberg
The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum -- Larry Niven
Luck tends to come to people who are prepared. -- Colin Powell
The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum. -- Rudolf Clausius
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. -- Edgar Friedenberg
Successful action tends to become an end in itself. -- Eric Hoffer
The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose. -- Edward Gibbon
History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. -- Jules Romains
History tends to change people who think they're changing it. -- Terry Pratchett
The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection. -- Aristotle
Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling. -- Isaac Watts
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart. -- Lars von Trier
Every party and every movement tends to need a hero. -- Chris Matthews
If you educate women, family size tends to go down. -- Jane Goodall
The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments. -- David Gilmour
Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability. -- Daniel Hannan
Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone. -- Deepak Chopra
TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold. -- Josh Holloway
Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day. -- Tom DeMarco
Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases -- Diana Gabaldon
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. -- Mark Knopfler
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle. -- Marc Andreessen
Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle -- Marc Andreessen
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits -- Peter Jennings
Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody. -- Marshall McLuhan
Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around. -- Mitchell Baker
The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber. -- Ben Casnocha
Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television. -- Jason Winston George
The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought. -- Mary Cheney
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. -- Arne Jacobsen
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. -- Anthony de Mello
That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions. -- Larry Wall
Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness. -- Pierre Bourdieu
A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality. -- Lasse Hallstrom
The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. -- Jack Kornfield
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable. -- Richard Rohr
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. -- J. William Fulbright
Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious. -- Leo Burnett
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. -- Laurence J. Peter
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. -- Will Durant
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos. -- Immanuel Kant
A positive attitude from you tends to produce a positive attitude toward you. -- Deborah Day
Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools. -- Peter R. Grant
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Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
Empiricist philosophy always tends to be anti-philosophy (and is often proud of it). -- Allen W. Wood
Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother. -- Franz Grillparzer
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous. -- Juvenal
Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. -- Moby
No matter what you do, black lace tends to look a little Spanish. -- Nicole Miller
Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious. -- Helen Fielding
I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age. -- Albert Einstein
When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors. -- Gaspard Ulliel
Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends, -- Jeff Olson
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you. -- Tracy Kidder

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