This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.
I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.
When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.
I was thinking of the word Surrealistic. . . I don't think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The meaning is close but I think my tendencies are more toward the whimsical or absurd. Surrealism is more connected with morbidity. From that I am very far away.
Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.
Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.
Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.
Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies to rivalry, jealousy, and acquisitiveness reinforce.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.
You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them.
One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'.
There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future.
Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.
There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.