Quotes of: Tendencies Keyword

I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.

Martha Wainwright

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Marilyn Monroe

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.

Jonathan Shapiro

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

Sarah Churchwell

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Helen Rowland

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

Francis Jeffrey

Honestly, I have a tendency to date dorks. Which means that a lot of times, I date guys that no one else would deem to be a hunk.

Ivanka Trump

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

Bill Gross

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

Hervey Allen

In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.

Henry Charles Carey

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

John Stuart Mill

I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.

Jack Osbourne

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Norman Mailer

I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end.

Dennis Franz

I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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.

Jerry Stiller

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Carla Gugino