#tendency

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#always #church #cultural #ethical #into

Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do. ↗

— Lisa Leslie

#could #desire #dunk #fathom #jump

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. ↗

— George McGovern

#how #matter #mistaken #rally #round

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#bad idea #hire #i #idea #maybe

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting. ↗

— Donald Norman

#decide #i #i think #measurable #measure

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#admitting #before #everything #objective #reality

I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#combined #different #essentially #guess #i

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#because #believe #eyes #i #know

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#electrical #function #genius #i #i believe

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #beyond #climate #coming #consumption