The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.
When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.
The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation of calamity should alert us that groupthink is driving the movement.
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
My booking agent, of course, here and overseas, their tendency is to want to build on a certain kind of measurable success, and I was thinking yesterday, what I'd like to do is maybe start to compile a list of the best 200 to 500 capacity rooms around the world and just start going to them again and again and again.
A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when someone who has an appointment to see you is prevented from coming.
Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.
There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have. . . a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.
When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something. "
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.
The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world; denouncing them as inadequate to the wants of man, false in their foundations, and dangerous in their tendency.
People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.
I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back.
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.