Tendencies Quotes · Page 3

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My tendencies are I get really long with my swing and my body gets out of sync.

— Nelly Korda

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

— Cindy Sheehan

Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.

— William Mulock

Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

— Brian Tracy

We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

— Christiane Collange

Warm water rebirthing has a tendency to regress people to birth memories and prenatal states of consciousness.

— Leonard Orr

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I have a lot of pot tendencies. I'm always late, I laugh for no reason, I watch Jeopardy! with the sound off…

— Dave Attell

There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it,…

— Laszlo Nemes

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

— Eamonn Coghlan

People have a tendency to cast me more as lawyers and doctors and just rich guys, rich assholes basically, a lot of…

— Barry Bostwick

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit…

— Anne Lamott

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

— Muhammad Iqbal

“Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.”

— Haruki Murakami

Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of…

— Dallas Willard

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render…

— Josiah Warren

And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to…

— Anonymous

In the Apostolic Exhortation 'Amoris Laetitia,' Pope Francis speaks only in one point about homosexual tendencies. As did the last synod, the…

— Christoph Schonborn

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and…

— Lord Acton

Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and,…

— Frank Zappa

If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old…

— Max Scheler

I just read a book on how to get control of my time and therefore of my life. My time has always…

— Patrick F. McManus

The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an…

— Bert Blyleven

There is no doubt that this fusion of terrorist and Muslim feeds virulent forms of Islamophobia, which is also encouraged by such…

— Richard A. Falk

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams.…

— Marcel Proust

I felt that there could be some anger. There could be some frustration that he has the tendency to take over the…

— Viola Davis

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering,…

— Clarence Darrow

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery…

— Oliver Sacks

To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,…

— Richard Bausch

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

— Mercedes Ruehl

Hillary Clinton was saying Bill Clinton has tendencies toward being sexist.

— Donald Trump

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

“Suicidal tendencies are likely to increase during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

— Steven Magee

I think that the boys have a tendency to be less receptive than the girls.

— Goldie Hawn

If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.

— Marvin Hamlisch

If you look at every star in the game, everyone has tendencies.

— Julius Randle

These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

— David Nicholls