Tendency Quotes

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Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders… — Alice Duer Miller
There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil… — John Steinbeck
The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows… — William Booth
Women have a natural tendency to want to nurture and take care of men. You always think that the guy is going to end up… — Emma Watson
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about. — Marlene Dumas
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes… — Prince
Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to… — Richard G. Scott
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and… — Neal Stephenson
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get… — Ann Richards
I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society â€” with the cosmos. To link me with my family to… — Kenzaburo Oe
One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa every two to… — Jack D. Schwager
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they… — Matisyahu
I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you… — Robert Nozick
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or… — Aldous Huxley
Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand. — Dani Shapiro
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what? — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary. — Glenn Reynolds

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