Tendency Quotes

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway

Life, Love, Sleep

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
Martin Scorsese

Live, Kindness, Compassion

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
Marilyn Monroe

Woman, Feelings, Afraid

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
Marilyn Monroe

Change, Women, Start

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Milton Friedman

Another, Economic, Party

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund Freud

Powerful, Culture, Obstacle

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee

Dreams, Time, True

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
Lord Jeffrey

May, Taken, Sign

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Reinhold Niebuhr

God, Value, Religious

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Agatha Christie

God, Free, Evils

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart Mill

Power, Mediocrity, General

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron

Love, Good, God

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.
Stephen King

After, Keep, Results

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
J. K. Rowling

Dark, Sometimes, Walk

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
Donald Rumsfeld

War, Death, View

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana

Free, Reflection, Middle

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
Helen Rowland

Life, Person, Same

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.
Dolly Parton

When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.
Rush Limbaugh

Happen, Disregard, Poll

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
Jimmy Carter

Different, Define, Sins

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
Richard Wagner

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
Shia LaBeouf

Successful, Down, Problem

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
Peter Singer

Strong, Human, May

Truth is a tendency.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
Jack Dee

Life, True, Depression

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.
Marion Cotillard

Often, Point, View

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
William Howard Taft

Nature, Strong, Human

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
Jean Claude Van Damme

Life, Truth, Someone

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Henry George

Power, Wealth, Destroyed

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