#tendency

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#gentler #gotten #had #i #kindness

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. ↗

— Peter Singer

#complex #decision-making #even #human #long-term

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#before #here #inherent #itself #long

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#done #keep #tendency #them #things

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#desire #down #human #human nature #lay

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

#also #come #conservative #exactly #explain

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#actively #advance #behind #body #christianity

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ↗

— Jane Addams

#exception #immorality #make #myself #tendency

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#already #away #borders #closer #conquest

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry