Tendency Quotes - page 6

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me. (Catherine Helen Spence)
What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. View quote
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing. View quote
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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 male characters are just characters. View quote
Elizabeth Meriwether
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. View quote
Gene Tierney
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency. View quote
Herbert Croly
That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life. View quote
Herschel Walker
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. View quote
Jack Dee
My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way. (John Bradley-West)
I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it. View quote
John Sharp Williams
I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct. View quote
Kate Burton
Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable. View quote
Katherine Helmond
I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power. View quote
Lauren Lee Smith
I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do. View quote
Lena Olin
I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself. View quote
Martha Wainwright
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong. View quote
Matisyahu
I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts. View quote
Michael Buble
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that. View quote
Michael Tolkin
I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are. (Pablo Schreiber)
I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information. View quote
Paul D. Boyer
I try to see what the priorities are and not get terribly fussed about things that don't matter. Not be swept away by feelings and emotions, which is my tendency. View quote
Penelope Tree
I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you. View quote
Radha Mitchell
Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency. View quote
Rudolf Arnheim