Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.
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.
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
If there are ways in which we can make Qaddafi nervous, why shouldn't we? That is not deceiving you, but just using your predictable tendencies to report things that we try to keep secret.
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
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.
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.