Tendencies Quotes · Page 19

Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.

— William Booth

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

— Theodore Roosevelt

The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible…

— Isabel Allende

Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be…

— Anatole Broyard

We do Him [God] honor in our pledge of allegiance, in all our public ceremonies. There's nothing wrong with that. It is…

— Antonin Scalia

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties,…

— Markus Wolf

“Football Coaches do play football matches; their attitudes toward the game in times of tendencies of losing can cause a change in…

— Israelmore Ayivor

What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command…

— Justus von Liebig

There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic,…

— Alfred Kinsey

Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

— Eamonn Coghlan

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We…

— Henry B. Eyring

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

— Mona Charen

I try to see what the priorities are and not get terribly fussed about things that don't matter. Not be swept away…

— Penelope Tree

As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to…

— Yolanda Adams

There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now.…

— Frederick Lenz

We consider the Holocaust as being a sort of strange event taking place on another planet; we never understood in a visceral…

— Laszlo Nemes

The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the…

— Noam Chomsky

Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I'm glad you're still upright, Charles, and the only reason you are is because she didn't have any silver. She'd have staked…

— Jeaniene Frost

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

— Northrop Frye

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness…

— Robert Benchley

If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary…

— Ronald H. Nash

I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills,…

— Erik Naggum

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning…

— Benjamin Franklin

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is…

— Alexis de Tocqueville