Tendencies Quotes - Page 3

As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

A mighty stream of tendency.

Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

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

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.

Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.

You really have to learn what you're good at and what you're not good at, what you can handle and what you can't handle. We have a tendency to forget it.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.