Tendency Quotes
850 quotes by 703 authors
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Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do.…
— Lisa Leslie
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There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that…
— Jonathan Shapiro
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In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it…
— Henry Charles Carey
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A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which…
— Robert Rainy
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I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.
— Jason Bateman
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The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.
— Maurice Strong
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Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.
— Alberto Giacometti
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the…
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
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The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own…
— Elihu Root
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That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is…
— Lawrence Eagleburger
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The tendency of everyone is to evolve.
— Romario
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I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.
— George Michael
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Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
— John Bolton
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I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally…
— Paul Wolfowitz
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I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or…
— Christopher Nolan
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Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a…
— Lynn Margulis
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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a…
— Adam Hochschild
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The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when…
— Elizabeth Meriwether
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I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with…
— Edgar Winter
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Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
— Bill Gross
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