Quotes About Tendency

Los puritanos quedarían espantados ante la actual tendencia de la evangelización moderna que pretende meramente rescatar a los pecadores del infierno pero posterga la sumisión de estos al señorío soberano de Cristo para más tarde.

Life is but a collection of habits.

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.

She always was highly strung," pursued Henry, leaning back in the car as it shot past the church. "A tendency to spiritualism and those things, though nothing serious. Musical, literary, artistic, but I should say normal—a very charming girl.

Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything — except his own mistakes.

I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class—whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

he had recently noted a certain tendency toward self-pity, an almost irresistible urge to give in to every desire

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.

The sorry existence to which this mental tendency was condemned in recent decades by the powerful development of social democracy in Germany may, to a certain extent, be explained by the exclusive domination and long duration of the parliamentary period. A

La tendance générale et le résultat final de ce processus sont l'hégémonie universelle de la production capitaliste. Ce terme atteint, le schéma de Marx entre en vigueur : l'accumulation, c'est-à-dire l'expansion ultérieure du capital, devient impossible.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness. Since most of us have this tendency to a greater or lesser degree, most of us are mentally ill to a greater or lesser degree, lacking complete mental health.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness.

frugality might indicate a certain tendency toward asceticism, which was the complete expression of human foolishness.

The historians criticized a tendency, as they phrased it, to too rapid generalization. Other people blamed my method; and those who complimented me were those who understood me least.

The mob characteristic most gustily exhibited by liberals is the tendency to idolize their political leaders, while considering "as enemies all by whom [their beliefs] are not accepted.

Where the world is inclined to favour, replied I, it is apt to over-rate, as much as it will under-rate where it disfavours.

In his reply, Washington acknowledged his fellow Americans' "fatal tendency of disunion." The

University philosophy is, as a rule, mere juggling. Its real aim is to impart to the students, in the deepest ground of their thought, that tendency of mind which the ministry that appoints to the professorships regards as consistent with its views.

St. Josemaria diagnosed this tendency to overwork as a sickness of the spirit. That was before the word "workaholism" was coined. St. Josemaria called the condition "professionalitis"— suggesting a corruption of something good.

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

it is the peculiar privilege of the Church, to know what the   Divine judgments mean, and what is their tendency.