Tendency Quotes

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I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you. — Mike Birbiglia
I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher… — Yotam Ottolenghi
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. — Sarah Churchwell
Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With… — Murray Rothbard
I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something. — Kent Haruf
I am someone who actually jumps headlong into everything and anything. I am not one of those people who likes to be scared; instead I… — Sonam Kapoor
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is… — Richard Dawkins
I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan. — Laurie Helgoe
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions… — Richard Jefferies
Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency. — Mahavira
By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action. — Mahavira
Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many… — David Novak
There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I sing in full voice in the car and have a tendency to harmonize badly. — Brad Goreski
Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever. — Virginia Postrel
The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood… — Wadah Khanfar
Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the… — Michael Oren
Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely… — Jill Lepore
I think a lot of times there is a tendency in Washington to make rules because of something that was adverse or fraud or something… — Brad Wenstrup
I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves. — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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