Tendency Quotes

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I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to. — Dolly Parton
I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage. — Lisa Marie Presley
It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school. — Sally Ride
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three… — Helen Rowland
I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. — Donald Rumsfeld
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper… — George Santayana
And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of… — Martin Scorsese
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational,… — Peter Singer
I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the… — Alexander Skarsgard
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes,… — William Graham Sumner
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions. — Ichiro Suzuki
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. — William Howard Taft
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing… — Gene Tierney
In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we… — Iyanla Vanzant
I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the… — Richard Wagner
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. — Jimmy Wales
A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are.… — Betty White
Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food… — Andrew Weil
While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious… — Robert Winston

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