Tendencies Quotes - Page 35

• I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

  Jane Austen

  May, Rewards, Tyranny

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.1134, GENERAL PRESS

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• One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.

  David Eddings

  Betrayal, Hate, Acceptance

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• The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it.

  Kevin Hearne

  Sight, Hug, Sopranos

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• I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Book, Reading

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• There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability.

  Oliver Sacks

  Song, Children, Musical

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• Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.

  Brenda Jackson

  People, Sometimes, Best Things

  Brenda Jackson (2011). “Temptation & Spontaneous: Temptation\Spontaneous”, p.305, Harlequin

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• If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Simple, Mind, Taste

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• I am the Walrus, but not the one you're probably thinking of. I am the other Walrus, the one who is less the Walrus in the sense of legendary music and more the Walrus in the sense of his tendency to to lie around in places for too long.

  Demetri Martin

  Lying, Thinking, Long

  "Who Am I?" by Demetri Martin, www.newyorker.com. February 28, 2011.

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• A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

  Jane Austen

  Mind, Income, May

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.55, Wild Jot Press

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• What do you mean I have a predetermined death?” – Nick “Did I stutter?” – Death “No.” – Nick “Do I look like Webster’s?” – Death “No.” – Nick “Then you should understand what I said, since I didn’t speak in code. Every mortal creature is born with an expiration date. Some immortals, too. Set by the big clockmaker. But excessive stupidity and moronic tendencies can shorten it. Pissing me off is one really good way to cut yours down to three seconds from now.” – Death

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Cutting, Stupidity

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• The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

  e. e. cummings

  Reality, Firsts, Steps

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• Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Character, Fighting, Self

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

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• These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

  David Nicholls

  Morning, Night, These Days

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.98, Hachette UK

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• We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick!"-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may have been exciese from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.

  Martha Stout

  Girl, Children, Mean

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• All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

  Clive James

  Intellectual, Corruption, Ideology

  Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. August 3, 2007.

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• Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Unfortunate

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• The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or she belongs).

  Amartya Sen

  Loyalty, Giving, People

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• For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Tears, Reason, Temper

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.

  Michael Grant

  Beautiful, Girl, Teenage

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• Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

  John Steinbeck

  Might, Might Have Been, Has Beens

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.91, Penguin

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• The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

  Alain de Botton

  Action, Cures, Persons

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• If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

  Niall Ferguson

  Emotional, Swings, Roots

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• Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

  John Piper

  Sleep, Thinking, Bed

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• Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning

  Nicholas Sparks

  Men, Wanted

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• My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

  Steve Jobs

  Teamwork, People, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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