Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.
Ransom thought her girly tendencies the funniest thing ever, constantly teased her over them, but the last time he'd opened his big mouth, she'd gotten her own back by pointing out that his long black hair sure did look well conditioned.
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where you are because there's nowhere to go anyway. I feel conflicted on this one.
If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.
Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
You really have to learn what you're good at and what you're not good at, what you can handle and what you can't handle. We have a tendency to forget it.
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies.
Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.
I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
Hillary Clinton was saying Bill Clinton has tendencies toward being sexist.
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!