Top 1200 Tendency Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.
There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.
One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.
People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.
People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.
A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.
Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.
As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.
Ironically, fashion trends, be it denim or polka dots, have a tendency to perpetuate the contrary.
There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.
We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost – for support, not for illumination.
This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.
It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
I happened to get interested in jewelry when an ethnic tendency was reawakening in fashion.
The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.
My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.
The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.
Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.
I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.
To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."
We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.
The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows.
The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.
I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.
The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.
Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
People have a tendency - you let your ego get in the way of the big moments.
sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.
Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?
I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.
Modern media has a real tendency to focus on the divisions rather than the commonalities.
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
