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Tendency Quotes by Sidney Lanier
- I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words…
- If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards…
More Tendency Quotes
- During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. — John James Audubon
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only… — John J. Pershing
- [T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate… — Thomas Jefferson
- We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to… — Marianne Williamson
- One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality. — Erwin Chargaff
- There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not… — Dalai Lama
- I have an immature, Homer Simpson-like tendency to giggle when I say the words 'seminal fluids' in public. — Stephenie Meyer