#tendency

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#civilization #combined #energies #genius #individual

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. ↗

— George McGovern

#how #matter #mistaken #rally #round

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#electrical #function #genius #i #i believe

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#clothes #designers #fantasy #fashion #i

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#evolve #face #fat #i #into

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts. ↗

— Michael Buble

#being #being afraid #everything #failure #fear

As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#again #been #being #beings #buy

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. ↗

— Tom Osborne

#always #history #matter #odds #overcome

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #beyond #climate #coming #consumption

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#class #classes #crush #each #extreme