Tendencies Quotes
892 quotes by 716 authors
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You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.
— Michael Grant
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Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
— John Steinbeck
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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
— Alain de Botton
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If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to…
— Niall Ferguson
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Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness.…
— John Piper
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Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning
— Nicholas Sparks
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My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other…
— Steve Jobs
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Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.
— John Green
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Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.
— Brian Weiss
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When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.†I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.†There was another pause. . . “That is the…
— Patricia Briggs
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Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a…
— Ally Carter
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I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.
— Ernest Hemingway
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The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since…
— Albert Camus
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I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.
— Tana French
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If you have a belief and you come against an experience which the belief says is not possible, or, the experience is such that you…
— Rajneesh
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I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even…
— Javier MarÃas
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We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only…
— Pema Chodron
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