Tendency Quotes - page 5

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 country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything. (Elihu Root)
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 years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects. View quote
Yotam Ottolenghi
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage. View quote
Lisa Marie Presley
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. View quote
Vint Cerf
There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford. View quote
Alexander Wang
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. View quote
William Graham Sumner
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. View quote
Christopher Dawson
We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together. View quote
Jerry Stiller
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding. View quote
Benjamin Lee Whorf
I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is. (Donald Pleasence)
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions. View quote
Ichiro Suzuki
Matching your hat to your shoe to your bag, or your necklace to your earrings, has a tendency to look dated. Mixing up your accessories adds interest to an outfit, and can make you look much more modern and polished. View quote
Stacy London
I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency, he has a right thus to act. View quote
Francis Hutcheson
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway. View quote
Alan J. Pakula
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. View quote
Albert Bushnell Hart
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. View quote
Adam Clarke
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. View quote
Adam Sedgwick
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP. (Bill Gross)
One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much. View quote
Bill Sienkiewicz
An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment. View quote
Bruno Rossi
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization. View quote
Chauncey Wright
I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don't mix. So I try to fight those demons. View quote
Chris Farley