Tendency Quotes

850 quotes by 703 authors

You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency to occasionally urinate in the refrigerator.… — Patrick Rothfuss
There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies… — Fernando Pessoa
I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need… — Oprah Winfrey
When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary. — Terry Pratchett
Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's… — David Foster Wallace
And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking… — Steven Levitt
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all… — Hermann Hesse
The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way… — Terry Pratchett
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters. — George F. Kennan
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same… — Alain de Botton
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you'… — Christopher Hitchens
The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk,… — Neil Gaiman
Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the… — Jane Green
Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of… — Aberjhani
â€ŽA general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts… — John Stuart Mill
Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them. — Denis Johnson
Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to… — Edith Wharton
Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and… — Cassandra Clare

Who Wrote These Tendency Quotes

703 authors contributed a total of 850 Tendency Quotes, led by these top contributors: