Tendency Quotes

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The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that… — Peter Kropotkin
If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness,"… — Theodore Roosevelt
When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates… — James Redfield
There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil.… — Agatha Christie
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that… — Diana Gabaldon
The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice… — Isabel Allende
I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone elseâ€™s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind… — Rachel Vincent
Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you… — Victor Hugo
He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the… — Eric Metaxas
If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if… — Khaled Hosseini
In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external… — Pope John Paul II
I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me… — Flannery O'Connor
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus… — Thomas Szasz
I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Itâ€™s true that someone will always say that good and evil donâ€™t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real… — Amelie Nothomb
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of… — Aleister Crowley
I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for… — Patrick O'Brian
If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed… — Dan Millman
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there. — Bill McKibben
Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and… — Rob Bell

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