Tendencies Quotes - Page 6

It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.

Sathya Sai Baba

Animal, Quality, Elements

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Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

Sathya Sai Baba

Thinking, Evil, Grace

FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Dec 04, 2016

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Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

Julius Caesar

Wine, Men, Luxury

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A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when someone who has an appointment to see you is prevented from coming.

Peter Medawar

Obsession, Moments, Danger

Peter Brian Medawar (1986). “Memoir of a thinking radish: an autobiography”, Oxford University Press, USA

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Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

Joshua Reynolds

Ambition, People, Exhibitions

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.86

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There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

Pauline Kael

Art, Preference, Theory

pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.

Reynolds Price

Athletic, Trying, Matter

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God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

Robert Bellarmine

Heart, Men, Behaviour

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No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

George Henry Lewes

Logic, Argument, Judgment

"Problems of Life and Mind, First Series: The Foundations of a Creed". Book by George Henry Lewes. Volume 1, p. 7, 1874.

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Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural 'next step'? What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message?

Dallas Willard

Jesus, Believe, People

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There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke.

David Gergen

Country, Night, Thinking

"Gore, Bush seek return to campaign themes, but international policy dominates". www.cnn.com. October 13, 2000.

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In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . .

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Fall, Humble, Fighting

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It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.

James F. Cooper

Integrity, Agency, Evil

"The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper (Conclusion, p. 191), 1838.

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Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Government, Satisfaction, Authority

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There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and programs.

John Dingell

Opportunity, People, Giving

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It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.

Don Ellis

Years, Style, Hips

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If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.

Rich Lowry

Country, Thinking, Racism

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I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but I see and feel the formative tendency of air in its form. When I do all this, then what lives in the forms becomes enlivened and spiritualized for me.

Rudolf Steiner

Air, Bird, Cages

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My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

Joan Miro

Color, Simplicity, Three

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One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

Kenneth Koch

Attitude, Fall, Maturity

Kenneth Koch (1978). “I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home”, Random House Incorporated

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That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school. You're creative in high school and college. And then when you get to the league, this position, the more mobile quarterbacks, we have a tendency to want to become traditional and nervous and panicky in how we want to call plays and put guys in position to make plays.

Kordell Stewart

Fun, Creativity, School

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In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.

Theodore Roosevelt

Loss, Class, Government

Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904”

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Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances.

Harold B. Lee

Mean, Church, Weakness

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For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

Matthew Arnold

God, Science, Law

Matthew Arnold (1970). “Literature and dogma”, Continuum

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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.

Theodore Roosevelt

Eggs, Meat, Use

Speech, St. Louis, Mo., 31 May 1916. The Oxford English Dictionary documents usage of the term weasel word as early as 1900.

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