I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. But since the tendency toward inertia means that it's easier for me to stay alive than die, I guess that's how it's going to be, so I guess I should try to be happy.
I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind “refreshingly honest,” and hailed Marc’s temper as “a deep protective instinct. ” He said Ethan “thoroughly enjoyed life,” and that Parker “really knew how to have a good time. ” According to Owen, we were all doing just fine, and all was right with the world.
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words. '' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.
My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.
Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.
The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.
If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.
So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously
I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.
I think we have a tendency to support the underdogs.
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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.
The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny
Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.
I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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.