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In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.
A. B. Yehoshua
Time
Crisis
Rational
Tendency
Writer
Turn
I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Problem
Hide
Reward
Problems
Three
Think
Market
Tendency
Allowed
Over
Period
Been
Years
Banks
Should
Transparent
Assets
Four
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
Adam Clarke
God
Wise
Bible
Happy
Promises
Men
Precepts
Direct
Having
Tendency
Most
Make
Another
Revelation
Proved
Commands
Holiness
Themselves
Holy
Useful
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
Adam Hochschild
War
World
Problems
Victory
Made
First
Politicians
Assume
Seem
Invariably
Tendency
Remarkably
Lead
Generals
Clear
Almost
Obvious
Hindsight
First World
First World War
Foresee
Nations
Enduring
Painfully
Swift
World War
It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.
Agnes Obel
Needs
Song
Difficult
Worry
About
Direction
More
Tendency
Piano
Know
Always
Go
Than
We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.
Ai Weiwei
Democracy
Be Happy
Rights
Happy
People
World
Sometimes
Sacrifice
Say
Criticise
See
About
Something
More
Only
Tendency
Countries
Like
Most
Looks
Because
West
Very
Efficient
Authoritarian
Short-Sighted
China
Should
Even
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
Alan Dean Foster
Me
Own
Bad
Rapidly
Would
Bored
Something
My Own
Rather
Something New
Tendency
New
Know
Read
Material
Get
Rewriting
Story
Mean
Hard
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.
Alan J. Pakula
Looking
Faces
Directors
Tendency
Like
Conductors
Hands
Orchestra
Anyway
Realize
Use
Actor
I love period drama as much as the next person, but there's a tendency to let all of the costume get in the way of the people.
Alex Lawther
Love
People
Drama
Way
Costume
Tendency
Period
Person
Get
Much
Next
I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.
Alexander Skarsgard
Myself
Me
Dark
Down
Think
Too
Kicks
Destructive
Be Careful
Someone
Something
Tendency
Because
Within
Go
Close
Get
Just
Hole
Rabbit
Might
Then
Really
Search
Careful
There are a lot of Swedes in Hollywood in general. We have a tendency to know each other and help each other out.
Alexander Skarsgard
Other
Out
General
Tendency
Know
Lot
Hollywood
Help
Each
Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scottish gallows humour; our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing.
Allan Guthrie
You
Writing
Negative
Weather
Negative Way
Humour
Our
Way
Those
Definitely
Out
See
Tendency
Towards
Come
Look
Buildings
Affects
Scottish
Maybe
Us
Things
I feel like my convictions and my passions come from my very personal experience and the life that I've led. I feel the very naturally tendency to stand up for and use my voice for the things that I know about and the things that I feel passionate about.
America Ferrera
Life
Experience
Convictions
About
Voice
Tendency
Feel
Come
Like
Know
Passionate
Passions
Led
Up
Very
Personal
Personal Experience
Stand
Use
Stand Up
Naturally
Things
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.
Amy Hempel
Me
You
Embellish
Would
Someone
More
Tendency
Write
Journalism
Obviously
Make
Call
Read
Makes
How
Closer
Taught
Confined
Want
Happens
Interesting
Sentence
Us
Next
Things
Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.
Andrew Weil
Food
People
Cheese
Few
Others
Everyone
Extreme
Macaroni
Kinds
Some
Eating
Restrict
Tend
Foods
Tendency
Bland
Take
Adult
Over
French
French Fries
Pasta
Fries
May
Just
Children
Dishes
Pizza
Plain
Prefer
Sandwiches
Buttered
Enjoyed
All of us, and particularly young people, have a tendency to view ourselves and our natures as static: you'll choose to do something for a few years, and you'll still be the same you.
Andrew Yang
You
People
Few
Young
Our
Static
Ourselves
Something
Tendency
Particularly
Still
Years
Same
Young People
Us
View
Choose
Natures
Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
Ann Richards
Strength
You
Bone
Those
Weak
Tendency
Exercise
Builds
Density
Up
Get
Where
Hold
Body
Your
Your Body
Muscular
Bones
When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.
Anne M. Mulcahy
You
People
Key
Better
Job
Others
Took
Say
Give
Direction
Tendency
Knew
Smarter
Know
Identify
Learn
Because
Always
Got
Get
Different
Them
Really
View
Who
Different View
There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.
Ariel Dorfman
Good
You
Yourself
Power
Side
Out
Bad
Only
Tendency
Come
Revolutionaries
Then
Show
Among
Women being women, they are very sincere, committed, and honest in what they do. If they feel they are shortchanging some segment of their responsibility, they have a tendency of holding themselves back. What I would like to tell them is that it is not necessarily true that you will short-change one or the other.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
You
Women
Will
Responsibility
Holding
Other
Back
Tell
Would
Some
Segment
Tendency
True
Feel
Sincere
Like
Very
Committed
Being
Them
Themselves
Necessarily
Honest
You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.
Barry Ritholtz
You
Natural
Despite
Telling
Something
Data
Tendency
Emotionally
Investments
Tale
Make
Times
May
Different
Want
Natural Tendency
Based
Satisfying
Actual
We tend to think of our idols as kind of superheroes; maybe less so today, given that people have a tendency to overshare on social media, but when I was growing up, all you knew about these people was what they allowed you to see - which was them doing superhuman things, up on stage in an arena with all these people going crazy.
Ben Gibbard
Today
Crazy
You
People
Social Media
Stage
Think
Our
Kind
See
About
Superheroes
Superhuman
Given
Arena
Tend
Tendency
Allowed
Knew
Doing
Idols
Up
Going
Going Crazy
Maybe
Which
Social
Them
Less
Growing
Media
Growing Up
Things
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
Benjamin Graham
Hope
Time
People
Fear
Greed
Way
Give
Directions
Both
Tendency
Price
Excessive
Most
Subject
Stocks
Irrational
Common
Ingrained
Gamble
Speculate
Consequence
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Government
Character
Strong
Law
Prosperity
Be Strong
Nation
National
Action
Weak
Must
Degraded
Tendency
He
Performs
Prince
Himself
Makes
National Character
Subjects
Decay
Which
While
Injure
Flourish
Flourishing
There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt - whether it's in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it. Journalism certainly is up there. Everything is susceptible to it.
Bennett Miller
Education
Politics
Relationship
Creativity
Money
Control
Everything
Corrupt
Tendency
Almost
Journalism
Between
Almost Everything
Untouched
Up
Very
Uneasy
Susceptible
Arts
Anything
Whether
Certainly
Hardly
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
Bill Gross
Inflation
Slow
Increasing
Deficits
Slow Growth
Percentage
Tendency
Accompany
Debt
Large
Growth
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