Tendency Quotes

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? (Ernest Hemingway)
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. View quote
William Howard Taft
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism. View quote
Norman Mailer
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. View quote
Warren G. Harding
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. View quote
Northrop Frye
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions. View quote
Maurice Allais
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ''How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style'' and avoid ''How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece'' View quote
James Thurber
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. View quote
J. Philippe Rushton
The natural tendency of the state is inflation. View quote
Murray Rothbard
I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff. View quote
Jack Osbourne
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. View quote
Marc Chagall
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is. View quote
Allan Bloom
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean. View quote
Brad Thor
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments. (Amy Chua)
We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased. View quote
Norman Jewison
See, there is a tendency to look at India as a country. View quote
Rahul Gandhi