Tendencies Quotes - Page 22

• Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

  Delia Ephron

  Children, Mean, House

  "The Quotable Mom". Book edited by Kate Rowinski, 2004.

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• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Fall, Character, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia. The friends of a free government cannot be too watchful, to overcome the dangerous tendency of the public mind to sacrifice, for the sake of mere private convenience, this powerful check upon the designs of ambitious men.

  Joseph Story

  Powerful, Army, Sacrifice

  Joseph Story (1842). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States”, p.264

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• Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

  Amy Hempel

  Writing, Interesting, Want

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• Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.

  Katherine Helmond

  Thinking, Play, Age

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• We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

  Paul Haggis

  Real, Writing, Character

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• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  Abdallah II

  Kings, Responsibility, People

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• A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

  Gary Larson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Long

  "Gary Larson returns with 'A Worm's Story'" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. July 10, 1998.

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• From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.

  Jimmy Reid

  Book, People, Atmosphere

  "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". www.independent.co.uk. August 12, 2010.

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• Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Hollywood, Yeah

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• We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

  Mercedes Ruehl

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• If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost. You are measuring yourself only against yourself and your tendencies not to do all that you are capable of doing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Health, Mean

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• I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Writing, People, Feelings

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• I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

  Maura Tierney

  Thinking, People, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Interesting, Insightful, Agendas

  "Romney Fires Back At Gingrich". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 8, 2011.

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• They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Attachment

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• I understand your higher and lower tendencies. There is something beyond all of this nonsense. There is a wonderful glitter that you can follow in life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Glitter

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• My tendency is to be very experimental.

  Sean Lennon

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Writing, Character, Men

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 21, 2010.

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• Problems are hidden opportunities and constraints can actually boost creativity. If you have some crazy ideas in your mind, and that people tell you that it's impossible to make, well, that's an even better reason to want to do it, because people have a tendency to see the problems rather than the final result, whereas if you start to deal with problems as being your allies rather than your opponents, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing way.

  Martin Villeneuve

  Crazy, Creativity, Opportunity

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• Everybody talks about the entitlement generation. There is no time I'd rather live in than now, and there is no generation I would more entrust the future of this country to than this one. There is a tendency to live in a nostalgic state in this country, and to think that other generations possessed an integrity and a tenacity greater than the generation that is now. I wholeheartedly disagree with that. I believe that this is a group that will rise up to any challenge that comes before them as well as any other generation in America would have done.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Integrity, Believe

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• I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Trying, Prove

  "'Divergent' Author Veronica Roth Turns Goodness Into Dystopia" by Sabrina Weiss, www.mtv.com. May 03, 2011.

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• I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

  Dean Ornish

  Opposites, Healthy, Want

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• The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.

  Criss Jami

  Stress, Heart, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.103, Criss Jami

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• I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

  Martha Wainwright

  Running, People, Unattainable

  "Formerly Known as What's-His-Name's Sister" by Daphne Merkin, www.elle.com. April 20, 2011.

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