Tendency Quotes

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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
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
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
My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages. — Joan Miro
One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency… — Kenneth Koch
In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost… — Theodore Roosevelt
For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. — Matthew Arnold
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat… — Theodore Roosevelt
Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about… — Wayne Dyer
All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never… — Henry Ford
People have a tendency to cast me more as lawyers and doctors and just rich guys, rich assholes basically, a lot of rich assholes. That's… — Barry Bostwick

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