Tendencies Quotes
892 quotes by 727 authors
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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward…
— Jane Austen
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One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than…
— David Eddings
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The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with…
— Kevin Hearne
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I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t…
— Haruki Murakami
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There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the…
— Oliver Sacks
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Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.
— Brenda Jackson
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If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I am the Walrus, but not the one you're probably thinking of. I am the other Walrus, the one who is less the Walrus in…
— Demetri Martin
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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in…
— Jane Austen
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What do you mean I have a predetermined death?†– Nick “Did I stutter?†– Death “No.†– Nick “Do I look like Webster’s?†–…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
— E E Cummings
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Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.
— David Nicholls
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We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the…
— Martha Stout
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All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
— Clive James
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
— Alain de Botton
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The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as…
— Amartya Sen
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The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place…
— Milton Friedman
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In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact…
— Carl Sagan
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For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.
— Stephenie Meyer
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