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tendency

«There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.»
«I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?»
«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.»
«There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few»
«No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.»
«There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.»
«Most economic fallacies derive - from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another»
«I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.»
«I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.»
«My upbringing made me as I am now. But I can become merry and happy at once. There were many years I was feeling at a loss about my life or how I grew up. I couldn't understand what is right or what is precious. At that time, I was so miserable and self-defeating. I was feeling angry with various things. My anger came up to the surface then. I don't say such tendency has disappeared. Even now there are anger and the dark side in myself. But it's the first time I've been so close to the light.»

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