Tendency Quotes

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A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself,… — Milan Kundera
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps… — P.G. Wodehouse
Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind… — Douglas Coupland
I'm glad you're still upright, Charles, and the only reason you are is because she didn't have any silver. She'd have staked you right and… — Jeaniene Frost
When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret — Paulo Coelho
Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to… — Gretchen Rubin
My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and… — Chelsea Handler
The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if… — Jeannette Walls
I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to… — John Ortberg
I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back. — Charles M. Schulz
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work.… — B.F. Skinner
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories. — Agatha Christie
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward… — Jane Austen
One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than… — David Eddings
The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with… — Kevin Hearne
Iâ€™m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, Iâ€™m the type of person who doesnâ€™t… — Haruki Murakami
Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them. — Brenda Jackson
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I am the Walrus, but not the one you're probably thinking of. I am the other Walrus, the one who is less the Walrus in… — Demetri Martin
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in… — Jane Austen

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