Tendencies Quotes

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When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it. — Edna O'Brien
Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind. — Mooji
It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals… — Sathya Sai Baba
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted. — Sathya Sai Baba
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle. — Julius Caesar
A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when… — Peter Medawar
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who… — Joshua Reynolds
There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory. — Pauline Kael
You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to… — Reynolds Price
Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things. — Robert Bellarmine
No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic — George Henry Lewes
Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those… — Dallas Willard
There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. That may help Al Gore in… — David Gergen
In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of… — James F. Cooper
There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and programs. — John Dingell
It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny',… — Don Ellis
If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American. — Rich Lowry
I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but… — Rudolf Steiner

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