Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
John Stuart Mill

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.
Reese Witherspoon

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
William S. Burroughs

I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.
Ryan Gosling

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
Arthur Miller

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
Daniel Goleman

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
Calvin Coolidge

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.
Henry Knox

We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.
Sarah Palin

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
Arthur Ashe

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
Alice Walker

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.
Kofi Annan

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
Tony Dungy

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.
Thom Yorke

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
W. H. Auden

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.
Edwin Louis Cole