Tendencies Quotes · Page 11

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to…

— Sara Bareilles

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

— Anonymous

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

— Richard Dawkins

To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

— Emma Goldman

I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.

— Sally Field

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

— Francis Arinze

We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost – for support, not for illumination.

— David Ogilvy

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You…

— Jacques Audiard

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither…

— Lord Acton

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough…

— Jack Nicklaus

There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company…

— Seymour Papert

I have a tendency to talk extremely fast. ... I think the fastness comes from the fact that I get very excited…

— Shailene Woodley

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not…

— Robert Greene

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces,…

— Alan J. Pakula

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

— Zoe Kazan

I'm a vegetarian now, but I'm willing to make an exception in the event I'm presented with people. Because I've always been…

— John S. Hall

If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be…

— Oprah Winfrey

This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the…

— Aleister Crowley

The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All…

— Francois Fenelon

[Men's] natural tendencies, natural proclivities, are bad. You gotta rein that in. You gotta dial that back. You need to really raise…

— Rush Limbaugh

The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people…

— John Warren Kindt

Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

There's a tendency for people in New York to think the world exists between the East and the Hudson Rivers, and I…

— Frank Wildhorn

With Islamophobic tendencies in Europe and North America it is quite possible that Islamic leaders could be charged with 'political genocide'. An…

— Richard A. Falk

All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and…

— George Washington

Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science…

— Norbert Wiener

Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension…

— Hugh Hefner

There must not be one law for the Jew and another for the Arabs…In saying this, I do not assume that there…

— Chaim Weizmann

Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals…

— Anonymous

In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your…

— Bette Ford

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate…

— Pope Francis

I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.

— Matthea Harvey

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

— Northrop Frye

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.

— Brian Tracy

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

— Alain de Botton

A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies.

— Chris Tucker

I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.

— Anthony Bourdain

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

— Jean Piaget