Tendencies Quotes - Page 36

• Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

  John Green

  Heartbroken, May, Abundance

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.23, Penguin

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• Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

  Brian Weiss

  Simplicity, Action, Diminish

  Brian L. Weiss (2012). “Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Yo”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Want, Natural, Knows

  Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks (2004). “Three Weeks with My Brother”, p.260, Hachette UK

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• Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.” I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.” There was another pause. . . “That is the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard you say,” Bran said. “Be careful, Adam, or you’ll turn her into a real girl.” Adam looked at me. “I like her just the way she is, Bran.” And he meant it, greasy overalls, broken fingernails, and all.

  Patricia Briggs

  Girl, Real, Hero

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.75, Penguin

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• Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Son, Land

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Doctors, Practice Of Medicine, Farewell To Arms

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

  Albert Camus

  Crush, Heart, Fate

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.

  Tana French

  Courses, Mines

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• If you have a belief and you come against an experience which the belief says is not possible, or, the experience is such that you have to drop the belief, what are you going to choose — the belief or the experience? The tendency of the mind is to choose the belief, to forget about the experience. That’s how you have been missing many opportunities when God has knocked at your door.

  Rajneesh

  Opportunity, Doors, Missing

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• I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one of the innumerable languages I don’t know, even if it’s in an indistinguishable murmur or imperceptible whisper, even if it would be better that I didn’t understand and what’s said is not intended for my ears or is said precisely so I won’t understand it.

  Javier Marías

  Distance, People, Would Be

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• We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Attitude, Men, Mirrors

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only way to fully understand the bodhichitta teachings, the only way to practice them fully, is to abide in the unconditional openness of the prajna, patiently cutting through all our tendencies to hang on.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Block, Teaching

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• Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.

  Stephen Dunn

  Order, Way, Patterns

  Stephen Dunn (2013). “Here and Now: Poems”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords." "Only for you.

  Darynda Jones

  Spinal Cord, Severe, Cords

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• There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.

  Karl Popper

  Men, Objectivity, Society

  "The Importance of Critical Discussion". "On the Barricades: Religion and Free Inquiry in Conflict" by Robert Basil, 1989.

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• Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference." I frowned. "There's...a law of conservation of history?

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, Law, Quality

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• "I'm not going to lose you, Kaylee. No matter what I have to do, or whom I have to fight. Even if that means quashing your vexing tendencies toward self-sacrifice."
  "Did you just say 'vexing'?" Nash asked.
  Tod scowled. "Nothing else seemed to fit. I stand by my word choice."

  Rachel Vincent

  Mean, Fighting, Sacrifice

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, 2011.

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• My domineering lover made no apologies for his caveman tendencies.

  Sylvia Day

  Apology, Lovers, Made

  Sylvia Day (2013). “Entwined with You”, p.174, Penguin

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• I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many people all my life -- I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny, with those of all classes that came in contact with. I was always saving or being saved -- in a single morning I would go through the emotions ascribable to Wellington at Waterloo. I lived in a world of inscrutable hostiles and inalienable friends and supporters.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Strong, Morning, Destiny

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1996). “The Jazz Age: Essays”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

  Benjamin Graham

  Hope, Time, Money

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• Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Respect, Freedom, Rights

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• The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

  James F. Cooper

  Freedom, Democracy, Majority

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• For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

  Henri Bergson

  Life, Essence, Creating

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.90, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Peace, Children, Differences

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• There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Peace, Ubuntu, Atheism

  Concerning Women "The Beginnings of Emancipation" (1926)

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