#tendency

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#dark side #i #side #sometimes #tendency

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#gentler #gotten #had #i #kindness

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#days #digital #everything #i #lit

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. ↗

— Peter Singer

#complex #decision-making #even #human #long-term

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#before #here #inherent #itself #long

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#desire #down #human #human nature #lay

Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda. ↗

— Jim Talent

#also #come #conservative #exactly #explain

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere. ↗

— Jack Dee

#belonged #comics #common #depression #during

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. ↗

— Henry George

#civilization #destroyed #distribution #every #power