Tendencies Quotes

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This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed. — John Howard Griffin
The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is… — Solomon Asch
Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in… — Ezra Taft Benson
There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position. — Pal Benko
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served… — Michael Pollan
The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is going on. And… — Brian Kolodiejchuk
We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive… — Karl A. Menninger
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world. — Paulo Coelho
It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways. — Richard Koch
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for… — Sayyid Qutb
Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs,… — John Edgar Wideman
Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact… — Josh Marshall
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for… — Ken Wilber
Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift… — Daniel Pinchbeck
No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after… — Matthieu Ricard
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos. — Carlos Castaneda
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. — James F. Cooper
We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased. — Norman Jewison
We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires. — David Platt
We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God. — David Platt

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