Tendency Quotes

“It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. To admit that the false has any standing in court, that it ought to be handled gently because millions of morons cherish it and thousands of quacks make their livings propagating it—to admit this, as the more fatuous of the reconcilers of science and religion inevitably do, is to abandon a just cause to its enemies, cravenly and without excuse.”
― H.L. Mencken, American Mercury

“The world had a tendency to trick people.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning. There was a feeling of weakness, a sort of powerlessness now, as though I were about to be ill but was never quite ill enough, as though I were about to come down with something I did not quite come down with. It seemed to me that for the first time in my life I had been in love, and had lost, because of the grudgingness of my heart, the possibility of having what, too late, I now thought I wanted. What was it that all my life I had so carefully guarded myself against? What was it that I had felt so threatened me? My suffering, which seemed to me to be a strict consequence of having guarded myself so long, appeared to me as a kind of punishment, and this moment, which I was now enduring, as something which had been delayed for half a lifetime. I was experincing, apparently, an obscure crisis of some kind. My world acquired a tendency to crumble as easily as a soda cracker. I found myself horribly susceptible to small animals, ribbons in the hair of little girls, songs played late at night over lonely radios. It became particularly dangerous for me to go near movies in which crippled girls were healed by the unselfish love of impoverished bellhops. I had become excessively tender to all the more obvious evidences of the frailness of existence; I was capable of dissolving at the least kind word, and self-pity, in inexhaustible doses, lay close to my outraged surface. I moved painfully, an ambulatory case, mysteriously injured.”
― Alfred Hayes, In Love

“I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beautiful. Otherwise it seems mere peevishness.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“The word "frustration" is defined as the unfortunate tendency of lessening one's destiny. Rise up and take all frustrations away! Stop squeezing your dreams into a small size... You were not created to settle for less!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people have a tendency to forget you, when you stop giving”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“Football Coaches do play football matches; their attitudes toward the game in times of tendencies of losing can cause a change in the scores of the games they monitor and mentor!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“The biggest barrier in communication is that tendency of listening to reply and not to understand.”
― Wilson M. Mukama

“Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“All that hath life tendeth unto creation”
― Lysander Keprta

“Increase is a natural tendency”
― Sunday Adelaja

“When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self’s (Soul’s) abode; it is known as freedom from all wanderings (nivruti).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“The modern tendency towards increasing specialization in all branches of research and scholarship has discouraged comparative studies of the arts; and what we seldom do we generally distrust. But our distrust of analogies was not shared by the sixteenth century, which inherited from antiquity a habit of drawing parallels as a matter of course.”
― John Shearman, Mannerism

“Character of any person is the aggregate of his or her conscientious tendencies - the sum total of the knacks of the civilized part of the mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“The war dragged on, as wars tend to do.”
― Kelsey Brickl, Hardtack: A Civil War Story

“Woman is not at fault, sex is not at fault; the fault is in your tendencies [vruti]. The tendencies indeed interfere and cause misery.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Autobiography of Gnani Purush - A M Patel

“Sex is of [karmic] 'discharge nature’, [but] the tendencies in it, create great responsibility (grave danger), they create interference. There is no need for tendencies in sex, at all. Naturalness (sahajik) means no interference.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy Attained with Understanding

“It depends on one's tendency since the heaven and hell lie on one's deeds and actions of life.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“When we achieve success at any given point of time, we have a tendency to further the goalpost and therefore we keep chasing the illusion of happiness throughout our lives.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“The problem with dirty secrets is they have a tendency to haunt you in the future.”
― Steven Magee

“Spitzfindgikeiten des bloßen Begriffs waren die Gestehungkosten für die Entdeckung der Dialektik, Aristotelisch-Hegelsche Teleologie ging der Tendenz, Augustinisches Sabbatreich dem Reich der Freiheit vorauf. Und nicht zuletzt, ganz zuletzt geht die Aristotelische Deckung des δυνάμει ὄν, des In-Möglichkeit-Seins mit der Materie als tragender Materie jeder utopischen Substraterweiterung der Materie vorher; ob auch der Aristotelische Materie-Begriff in großer Philosophie rückwärts wie großen Teils auf vorwärts oft vereinsamt blieb.”
― Ernst Bloch, Gesamtausgabe der Werke.: Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz: Band 7: Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz

“When inaction has a tendency to create problems, may action be the remedy to conquer fear, expose the truth and make a difference”
― Lisa J. Morris

“Irradiated brains have a tendency to go insane.”
― Steven Magee

“All living things are guided by "an inner light" that they "must involuntarily obey". [...]

The tree can no more melt like the icicle than the river can stay rooted in one place. The sun can't shine cold. [...]

[When we accept that humans have certain inborn constitutional leanings and affinities; an inner tendency to be the way they are] we learn to be more tolerant and forgiving.”
― Jason Elias, The Five Elements of Self-Healing: Using Chinese Medicine for Maximum Immunity, Wellness, and Health